You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.

People were very protective of me. Overly so. I was in the industry for a long time before I had any idea of what drugs people were doing.

Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.

My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.

I wish I had a river I could skate away on?

I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.