The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.

Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!

If you really want the truth of anything, don't use Wikipedia.

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

It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.