I can play a song for somebody, and when certain parts come on, I cringe. I might not like my vocal or the way I sang a certain word. Playing intimat….

Never Explain Anything.

If a life can have a 'theme-song' - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is [best] expressed in one word: Individualism..

There was a time when you were not. There never will be a time when you will not be..

There will always be an underground..

I know my priorities... I love music and I will continue to make songs, I know it's not just a period in my life. But I am focused on my studies..

Grunge, man, that was incredible. It was dangerous. It was not verse/chorus. Songs could be short, long, a lark, majestic. You were constantly being ….

There are so many bad songs that have incredible videos. It's pretty amazing, actually. The power of putting images to music is hypnotizing. It's a r….

All my songs are where I am..

I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about me….

Well, after Zombie Birdhouse came out, I toured behind it in the fall of 1982, into the spring, and in the summer in the Far East. At that time, I fo….

Things are not going to improve for you in life until YOU improve.

White people don't sing together very often, and when they do, it's about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony..

You're not going to hear me do a rap song, you're not going to hear me do a jazz song. We have to be true to our roots, do what we do, and try to do ….

When I look at great singers like Sinatra, Bennett and (Tom) Jones, I see great performers that can really move an audience. I really consider myself….

With some of the songs, we brought the pitch down to alto.I'm older, so naturally my voice is lower now..

Everything I'm doing musically is for its own sake. I'm recording at my house, trying really hard to write songs with a four-track tape recorder..

I couldn't be happier..

Sometimes you're writing a song and you have an image whilst writing a song. I don't think you ever base a songwriting process around a video, but wh….

I did some songs for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I had done a jazz album of Roxy songs, and they used bits of it in the film. It would be nice t….

There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them..