[Commercial radio] is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business.... So let's not kid ourselves. If you want to hear music, go buy a guitar.

Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.

I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.

The way you look I understand how you were not impressed, but I heard you let that little friend of mine take off your party dress.

I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.

When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.

Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.