What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it.

New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.

That for me is more important than anything when you're in the studio - to have somebody you can trust and who knows you, knows who you are and doesn't let you get away with anything.

It's a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal.

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

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.