Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

There's nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you're not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I'm the worst. I'm the worst at that.

Are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

I'm trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It's like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.

George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.

It's hard to win when you always lose.