When I started looking for pointed shoes, I used to go to Fairfax on Orchard Street in New York City, one of those little pushcart guys. I'd say, 'You got any pointy shoes?' They would go way, way in the back and come back with a dusty box, blow the dust off the top, and say, 'What do you want with these things? Give me twenty bucks. Go on, get outta here!' And that was the beginning.

I don't go to church on Sunday, don't get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way

It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.

It's hard to win when you always lose.

Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On

I'm reliable sources, I'll tell ya anything you want me to know.

There's nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you're not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I'm the worst. I'm the worst at that.