Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.
It's like you don't know you're making a record unless you're half-killing yourself.
Every time I make a record, it's kind of like scarification or something. You work 15 hours until you're stupid. You're just kind of all jittery.
The real drag is trying to fly from country to country, day of show, with all your gear. You get hassled all the time. It's hard trying to keep it together.
You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.
I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.
Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.
We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.
You show me a 50-foot wall and I'll show you a 51-foot ladder.
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.