And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.

You've got a chemistry class; I want a piece of your mind; You don't know what you started when you mixed it up with mine.

The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.

I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

I started with rock n' roll and...then you start to take it apart like a child with a toy and you see there's blues and there's country...Then you go back from country into American music...and you end up in Scotland and Ireland eventually.

Anything that has to travel all the way down from your cerebellum to your fingertips, there's a lot of things that can happen on the journey. Sometimes I'll listen to records, my own stuff, and I think god, the original idea for this was so much better than the mutation that we arrived at.