I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night.

All medical procedures require two hands, so in a sense it's like when you play an instrument. That's what they call things that they use in their work: They call them instruments. A lot of people start out majoring in medicine and drop it and change their major to music.

If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal.

New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.

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

I'll be clickin' by your house about two forty-five, Sidewalk Sundae Strawberry Surprise.