I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life.

In a time when everything can be next day and ordered and put on credit and paid for, music to me is promise, all promise, very little realization. It's the promise of walking into a room with a guitar and not being sure you will leave with an idea that will take, not being sure it won't slip away from you.

I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know.

People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.

In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.

It's better to say too much, than never to say what you need to say again.

[on Jessica Simpson] Yeah, that girl is like crack cocaine to me. Sexually it was crazy. That's all I'll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm.