Wooden ships are a hippie dream, capsized in excess if you know what I mean.

I got religion in the airport, my Lord. They caught me waiting on my baggage when I was bored.

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

Down by the river, I shot my baby dead.

The thing about my music is, there really is no point.

I do one take; I never overdubbed twice. I know there's stuff that isn't perfect, but it doesn't matter: Nothing is perfect, and there is a magic there that is undeniable because of the fact that we don't care about those things.

When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.