What I don't like is taking it to extremes and making all these intellectualizations about what basically is simple music. It's simple stream-of-consciousness stuff in my songs. What I'm trying to get across is misinterpreted.

You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.

Men come, men go, all things remain in God.

[Being alcoholic] you're either too high or you're too low. I mean, I was always looking for the bell to ring. I was always waiting for that bell.

I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what I wanted to say.