The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.

Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists. But they were never writing in the style or the form that I was interested in.

To get the stuff out of you, especially if what you're dealing with is yourself, requires you to open up and touch tender spots. You have to be anesthetized a little bit.

When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.

You sit and you let your fingers go to wherever they are going to go. You wait until you start to hear something, and you start to figure out what it is that you're doing. And then you add another piece next to that piece, and wait to see if some kind of pattern or something interesting starts to grow, and then you cultivate it.

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

I always get very calm with baseball.