The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.

Just before our love got lost you said "I am as constant as a northern star" And I said, constantly in the darkness, Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar.

During times like these, the wise are influential.

Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.

I didn't like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me...

America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.

The Blue album, there’s hardly a dishonest note in the vocals. At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn’t pretend in my life to be strong. Or to be happy. But the advantage of it in the music was that there were no defenses there, either.