I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.

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.

I like Thelonious Monk, he's so gnarled, he's like a piece of machinery that's pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.

The beginning of it starts at the end

I'll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.

When you say you're doing an opera, it's like when you're a seven-year-old and say, 'I'm off to Washington, Dad.' You kind of go, 'Sure. Sure you are, son.'

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