I dreamed that I was young and smart, and it was not a waste. I dreamed that there was a point of life, and to the human race.

To debate political objectives, views, and goals is the most American thing conceivable.

Herpes, AIDS, the Middle East at full throttle. Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle.

The music business doesn't interest me anymore.

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.

When I saw that combination of grace and power, the fast and the soft, the yin and the yang, that's what I'd been looking for.

To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.