"Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it."

"I did come from a pretty independent-minded family."

"Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life."

"You must plan to be spontaneous."

"No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual."

"Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize."

"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."

"My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops."