It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose.

I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.

I worry about a lot of things, but I don’t worry about achievements. I worry primarily about whether there are nightclubs in Heaven.

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

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.

I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong… I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.

The beginning of it starts at the end