I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

You've gotta blow the roof off of your heart and let the universe in.

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

Why don't you swallow razor blades?

Families that live out in the suburbs often make each other cry.

Well all tai chi has the martial aspect to it, a lot of people don't know, a lot of the teachers won't show it, or they do show it but you don't really learn it, what the application is.

When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble.