Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.

I don't get depressed and I don't get bored.

And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill.

I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it.

I got to be Jim Morrison a lot longer than he did.

Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.