Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.

When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.

I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.

When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.

I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do.

Love is a very hard feeling to keep alive. It's a very fragile plant.

I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.