I was number 1 on the who's likely to die list for 10 years...I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.

We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it's just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

I only get ill when I give up drugs... I don't have a drug problem, I have a police problem.

The thing about being a songwriter, once you realize you are one, is that to provide ammo, you start to become an observer. ... You're constantly on the alert. That faculty gets trained in you over the years: observing people, how they react to one another, which in a way makes you weirdly distant. ... It's a little of Peeping Tom, being a song-writer.

I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.