Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.

Well, they'll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June.

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

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

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don't get out much. It's true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.

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