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

It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey. Goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight, Matilda, too.

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

the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by

I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.

You know, we just buy music now. We don't make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it's so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.

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