You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.

When I first started drinking, it was working for me. It was great. Like when you're doing a gig and you're in a band and you're in the truck and there's nothing to do in the truck and the gigs are all the same and the hotels are all the same...it's the hotels, the car, the gig.

This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.

A lot of things come together to make up a song. It's just images.