Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to..

I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life..

I think when you're young and you get together with a group of guys who think like you and you start to make something that moves you as a group of p….

When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something t….

It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name ….

The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so I cannot judge or look down on someone who does whatever they….

I'm a very private person. What I did in the past or what somebody heard me do or has a bootleg of me doing...well, if you have a bootleg, then I did….

I've never presented myself as anything less than a flawed person..

If tears were liquor/ I'd have drunk myself sick..

Working with different people and do things that normally I would not do makes the music interesting for me to continue. It keeps me alive. When I'm ….

Basically I'm always singing about the same stuff whether it's in a loud or quiet outfit..

You're charging money to have people come watch you play; I want them to feel taken someplace good or provoked into thinking my way for an hour and a….

There's just so little mystery left in music or film. It was all that was magical to me as a child..

I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you sw….

You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way ab….

I think a myth is created from truth..

The ability to play with different people is infinitely fascinating to me..

I never knew Kurt to be suicidal. I just knew that he was going through a really tough time..

I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me somewhere..

The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range..

You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first..