Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

I don't know how to sell out. If I tried to sell out I don't think I could.

Whatever it was that I felt was the weak link in my previous project gave me inspiration for the next one.

You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him.

I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.

Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!

The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.