You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad and it's all right there in front of you.

We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.

Fashion costs money, but songs are free. You can write them for free and you can sing them for free and they can infect those around you or the people from the future and they can sing them for free too.

This [Thelonious Monk: The Life And Times Of An American Original] is another one of those books with the perfect blend of anecdote and analysis. The analysis is built into the anecdote. It has that right feel about it. It's not too scholarly, either.

Most of the answers to the world could be answered with our bodies.

You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad and it's all right there in front of you.

I don't think anybody does anything anymore without commenting on why they're doing it or making fun of it as they're doing it.