You're innocent when you dream.

I can't listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You're just processing too much, there's no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

Jesus Christ, this godamn rain, will someone put me on a train.

Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine, but sometimes I’d just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now.

I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch

Got 27 children I never see.