I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.

I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.

I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.

I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.

Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.

I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.