Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.

I’ve always been a word guy, I like weird words and I like American slang and all that and words that are no longer being used… I like to drag them out of the box and wave them around… this is an interesting one, it’s amazing how in addition to punctuation just a little pause in the wrong place can just completely transform the meaning of something.

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.

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 walked 500 miles just to see a halo, when I opened my eyes I was blind as can be.

Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead