One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

Like trillions of others, if it wasn't for Bob Dylan, it would have been a different musical landscape. Pop music wouldn't have been my thing at all. I did also grow up listening to The Beatles, but I never thought of being a Beatle.

I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.

I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether you go to the left or right, everybody in leathers, or everybody holding Chairman Mao's book, and if everybody goes to one end of the pitch, I always go to the other.

Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis.