Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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.
There's nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you're not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I'm the worst. I'm the worst at that.
God's away, God's away, God's away on business. Business!
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.