bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks...you really have to be on your toes all the time.

Now its raining its pouring the old man is snoring now I lay me down to sleep I hear the sirens in the street all my dreams are made of chrome I have no way to get back home I’d rather die before I wake like Marilyn Monroe and throw my dreams out in the street and the rain make ‘em grow

Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism, anything you do seems like you did it so somebody would see you do it, like showing up at the right parties.

It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night.

My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.

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

Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.