It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.

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 think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

It's the nature of human consciousness to look for trouble constantly, and we find it. We find it.

Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.