No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.

I can control the weather with my moods. I just can’t control my moods.

L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly died of boredom.

The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.

I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.

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.