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

I never looked at music as a serious ven­ture. There was very little encouragement from my family. I didn't have anybody to entertain, so it was hard to get motivated.

The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.

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.

Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.

We are all just monkeys with money and guns.

Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.