I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.

I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.

It seems like the more I punish myself, the better it's been. What it is, I'm relentless and I never give up. I never take the easy way out.

I don't release records to be anything but enjoyable.

Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy.

You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.

I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.