I suspect by the time the Beatles were writing the White Album, they didn't go, "'I Wanna Hold Your Hand!' I wanna play that!" It's like if somebody asked you to put on the clothes you wore in high school. Well, no. No!

When all my friends insisted that they were feeling jaded, it struck me as an affected pose. To me, everything is always new.

When you punish a person for dreaming his dream, don't expect him to thank or forgive you.

For me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.