I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

Most of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're mostly smoking the residue of all that material you absorbed over time.

You know, we just buy music now. We don't make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it's so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.

I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.

I think I have an adrenaline addiction, no question about that.

I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong - I have audio illusions.

The Music was like Electric Sugar