I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally.

Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep.

After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.

You know, every year has been fantastic for me, I'm still here, I'm still alive and it's been fantastic.

Life is not perfect. It never will be. You just have to make the very best of it, and you have to open your heart to what the world can show you; and sometimes it's terrifying, and sometimes it's incredibly beautiful, and I'll take both. Thanks.

I don't understand why anyone would collect my work. Please understand... it's like writing Our House. It took me an hour, it was 30 years ago, get over it! But people say, No, no, it changed my life, and I don't understand that. I can't take that seriously as a producer of what I consider to be art. If they want to collect it, fantastic. If you see what I saw when I took it and it means something to you, then by all means collect it. If I make some money, um, fine.