If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal.

I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.

I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you.

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

Well it's hotter 'n blazes and all the long faces / there'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier

There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.

Well, it's either kiss me or kill me, that's how I see it.