Turn away from your animal kind, try to leave your body, just to live in your mind.

It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.

I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a competitive sport.

Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.