I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.

There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.

I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun.

Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.