If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh... or they'd lock each other up.

I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.

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.

Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, it's probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally.

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I get some good passages, so what I'm going to do is just take sections out of them.

The band is like a vintage car. You take it out to go for a spin for a couple miles, but you wouldn't drive across the country.