I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

This is about all the bad days in the world. I used to have some little bad days, and I kept them in a little box. And one day, I threw them out into the yard. "Oh, it's just a couple little innocent bad days." Well, we had a big rain. I don't know what it was growing in but I think we used to put eggshells out there and coffee grounds, too. Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothin'. They're your days. Choke 'em!

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

I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted 'Time Square, and step on it!'

If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.

Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

Misery is the River of the World