The secret to longevity in the music business is to change, and to be able to change. [...] An actor has to assume other people's identities. A rock star doesn't need to do that. [...] But change is important.

Said 2,000 years of Christian history, baby And you ain't learned to love me yet?

If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!

Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.

Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.

I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have soul in the hole. If that isn't there, I don't see the point.

Songs need to have the ability to change and to grow for sure. They take on lives of their own. Some songs just don't have that capacity. They're locked within a period of time. And as soon as you take them out of that period of time, they die very quickly.