If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.

You can't right the wrongs because you'll never understand the cause and you'll be too busy dodging the effect.

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.

To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some of my favorite jazz records in cooler weather, it's the warmer nights that really make them come alive. Something about those sounds and the heat of the night really makes it happen for me.

America is a rough room and you don't know what might come your way, so you have to be prepared for almost anything.

The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.