I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don't. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.

Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.

Muhammad, my friend, I'm getting very scared. Teach me how to love my brothers who don't know the law, and what about the deal on the flying trapeze?

Sometimes I breathe you in and I know you know.