All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.

I would rather sing about my love affair or about a woman or to a woman than some guys any day.

The good thing about breaking up is that you have nothing else to lose.

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now, and how important it is, and I was really trying to get there in my life.

I was loud and electric at night, got all shook up with Elvis.

It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song.