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

Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don't need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.

I think my hight had the most significant single effect on my existence, aside from my brain. In fact, it's part of an inferior-superior syndrome. I think I have an inferior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.

Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same

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.

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

I sort of recognize it, as opposed to shaping it. Oh, that's a good idea, that's a good line. I wonder where I can use that. And when you get into a rhyme group like 'not,' you got a lot of rhymes, you got a lot of choices. The more you do it, the luckier you get.