The big change is the proximity to death.

It's the notion that there is no perfection - that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still there is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances.

My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.

She was made of flesh and eyelashes.

Does anybody have a cigarette? I'm looking forward to that first smoke. I've been looking forward to [it] for about 30 years.

Do not believe the truth. The truth is tiny compared to what you have to do.

Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession.