So I'll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.

They've got a wall in China, it's a thousand miles long. To keep out the foreigners, they made it strong. And I've got a wall around me, you can't even see.

I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think, 'That's really a better meaning than I thought, and perfectly valid, given the words that exist.' So part of what makes a song really good is that people take in different meanings, and they apply them, and they might be more powerful than the ones I'm thinking.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

I always get very calm with baseball.

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

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