You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in.

They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing.

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

You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way.

It's hard to win when you always lose.

Presley's what I go by, why don't you change the station.

It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.