Let your heart be the anchor and the beat of your song.

I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.

I am a big fan of Dos Passos' stylistic ability, his poetic approach to prose, but the ideas presented in the songs are quite different from those which he exemplified.

Live for yourself... there's no one else more worth living for...

The tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001.

To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It's very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to be more than just funny, and more than just jokes about human gaseousness.

If I do something weird, play it twice and it's a new part.