There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

All I can do is say I smell a rat. I don't know where it is or what kind of rat it is, but as an artist, I can express how. But I couldn't responsibly stand up and tell people which way to go, because then I'm just as guilty as the people who are telling everybody else what to do and where to go.

The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.

Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.