Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.

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.

When you're writing‚ you're conjuring. It's a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.

Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?

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.

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.

Let me fall out of the window/ With confetti in my hair