I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

There are lots of really good guitarists, but they play with the same pedals that everybody else does. Everybody buys the same pedals, so the sounds tend to be the same. I am looking for different ways of doing that without having to spend days and weeks and months fooling around with pedals, which I don't enjoy.

...everything looks worse in black and white.

My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.

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.

The only time that love is an easy game is when two other people are playing it.

How can you live in the Northeast?