My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room. This system has just worked for me, even though I've had to sweat over every word. It's just my style.

The big change is the proximity to death.

[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated.

You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself.

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

To have [Adam's Cohen] microscopic attention to my work was really a great privilege.

The birds they sangat the break of day.Start again!!I heard them say