You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.

Most of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're mostly smoking the residue of all that material you absorbed over time.

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want it to get in the way of what someone else's understanding is. It's not really about anything. At the same time, it will find some meaning.

Are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?

I don't know what the 'big time' is.

I don't like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, 'Oh God, another one bites the dust.'