Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.

Some people are upset to see you doing ordinary things. Those people, if they were a celebrity, they would have an entourage.

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.

You've got to keep the child alive; you can't create without it.

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm. They cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral.

At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.