If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

I absolutely adore the alchemy of a bit of an idea.

There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.

I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.

I'm not an actor, and I'll never call myself an actor. I've never thought of it as part of my life. I'll always be a singer, in my eyes.

If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.