I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.

I can create a vibe without saying anything, just by being in the room.

I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

You know the expression 'God protects fools and drunks'? I qualify for both.