I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

The cultural mix that's happened in the United States is wonderful! Funny enough, one of the most wonderful things about it is that there is no American race.

I don't want to be a professional cripple. And I don't see the suicide stuff as tragic.

Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.

People have habits about what they think songs should be like. There's the folky thing of: "Poor me, I'm a sensitive person in a cruel world." Or the pop thing of: "Hey, look at me, I'm sexy."

I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.