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.

Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.

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

For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes.

You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.

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

Are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?