Places like Belgium and the south of France, Sweden and Copenhagen are really alive. They really love rock 'n' roll, they really respond.

I'd never assume an audience was anything but totally receptive and perfect. Seriously, it seems to me that's the only circumstance you can work under. Otherwise, speaking for myself, you may as well be in the advertising business.

When I think of 'influence', I think of 'influenza', like somebody's picked up a germ.

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

I write a lot of more instrumental music than I do vocal music. It's because I come out of a background of playing piano and then playing sax for a number of years. I kind of got into rock backwards. A lot of guys go into rock and then get sick of it and then go into something else. I came the other way, so I've always just had a lot more stuff lying around.

Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live.