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.

Some things get better with age. Like me.

I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.

I've got nothing against daylight. I don't live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.

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

I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.

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.