Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.

I hate having to wait. I've got the thing done. I just want to see what happens.

Things aren't black and white in the world.

I am half a man, holy Jesus, what a drag.

And the Lord said: I burn down your cities - how blind you must be. I take from you your children, and you say how blessed are we. You all must be crazy to put your faith in me. That's why I love mankind.

Some day you do something where you use everything you know. You don't do it ostentatiously where you see the workings going on. But some day, if you're lucky, that will happen.