You've got to go down in order to feel better about yourself when you come up.

It seems to take me about five years to get a record together, which is not a clever idea.

Can't keep you home, you're messin' around, my best friend told me you're the best trick in town.

It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

Elvis had animal magnetism, he was even sexy to the guys, I can't imagine what the chicks used to think.

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators. I am no where near as much of that as Bob Dylan. But when your antenna is up you are pretty fixated and there is not much room in your life for anything else.