If I played just one song from every album, I would be onstage for two and a half hours. No one wants a show that long.

As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

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

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

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

Love is the distance between reality and pain.

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.