It wasn't good for my nerves, that kind of work - a fireman. I've got high blood pressure. I get upset easily. I don't think that was a proper career alternative for me.

Popular music is like a big party, and it’s a thrill sneaking in rather than being invited. Every once in a while, a guy with his shirt on inside out, wearing lipstick and a pillbox hat gets a chance to speak.

I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.

I can't listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You're just processing too much, there's no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.

On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick."

Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal.