If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they wouldn't have the Grammys.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

No drug is a cure, though. Drugs are just big pieces of tape they stick over warning lights.