People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I'm learning as I go.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

I have my books and my poetry to protect me

I just said, you know, this is a great track but this lyric, I don't believe it. It sounds like I'm trying to say something, instead of it naturally coming out of me, like I was saying something that I already knew. Anyway, I can't remember what it was. And either I threw it all out or I threw 90 percent of it out, and kept a line or two. That's happened a couple of times to me. Not too often, but a couple of times. Very aggravating when it does happen.

The public hungers to see talented young people kill themselves.

Losing love is like a window in your heart.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.