I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted 'Time Square, and step on it!'

What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it.

When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.

I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted 'Time Square, and step on it!'

George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.

You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?

Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.