I don't really like to write at a desk. I like to write when driving in a car. ... Once you're working on it, you're working on it all the time, and sometimes stuff'll come in the middle of the night, in a dream or something. Your mind is working on it all the time.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

Given all the facts that I'm young and I'm in good health and I'm famous - that I have talent, I have money - given all these facts, I want to know why I'm so unhappy.

There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.