There's a thrill when you steal something in plain view of other people. When you drop a newspaper over a sign and walk away with it, or take something off a wall and the sound of the glue ripping makes people turn around. Your heart is racing, it's a rush.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

The Class Clown album was done totally sober. I'd realized what a hell I'd made for myself and I cleaned up completely for three months. You can hear the clarity of my thinking and of my speech on that album.

Tonight's forecast: DARK. Continued mostly dark tonight, turning to wildly scattered light in the morning

Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.

Anyone who's onstage is going to attract a certain number of misguided people. But I was never very interested in groupies.

Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.