People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions..

I've never been interested in being relevant..

I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination..

Love is a state that I would like to exist in continuously..

Polly Jean, I love you. I love the texture of your skin, the taste of your saliva, the softness of your ears. I love every inch and every part of you….

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work..

There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and someth….

Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come..

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor..

The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song is ….

I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have soul in the hole. If that isn't there, I don't see the po….

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . ..

To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It's exhausting..

The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of….

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that ….

It's a wonderful life if you can find it..

I can control the weather with my moods. I just can’t control my moods..

Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it.

Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are..

He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in..

All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of an idea never ….