Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV

I don't intend to be a performing flea any more. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40.

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep. It's always in the middle of the night, or you're half-awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is. Every time you try to put your finger on it, it slips away. You turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. You can never grasp them...

Love is the Answer. What was the Question?

Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.

Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.

You don't have to be some sort of freak to meditate