The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

I don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association, rather than being at the peak of one. I think it's fairly obvious that a lot more suffering goes on in the name of love than the little happiness you can squeeze out of it.

I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet

There's that kind of song, "Whoah baby, I love you," which doesn't have a visual element, but a very strong emotional element, and these are the great songs to me - those ones that you put them on and they just make you feel great, or whatever.

A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

That's what we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something quite different.