The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

It’s a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier for you and being the first one to exclaim how good the movie is. You depress people. We like apples too.

I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

Every heart to Love will come, but like a refugee

Your heart opens and of course you're completely panicked because you're used to guarding this organ with your life.

[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.