The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand...

There's a place down the street; Seven Xs. What does that mean? Maybe it's... girls without skin.

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.

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

I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.

Most changes in music, most exciting things that happen in music, occur through a miscommunication between people "I thought you said this." Poetry comes out of that too.

It's a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal.