A lot of stuff I do, 10 years later it becomes popular..

I sometimes think 'Gordon' must be the most bootlegged album in U.S history, since it sold only 200,000 copies in the country, yet 800,000 kids know ….

Initially I borrowed the word "perverse" for my works from Roland Barthes, meaning pleasure-driven and not geared to inform or promote a service or a….

Always destroy what is in you..

People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the m….

The rottenness comes from within..

I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs..

Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty strains of an orchestra as if you w….

There are as many sorts of women as there are women..

Everyone dances to his own personal boomboom..

Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation..

Because as much as I love figuring out other people's puzzles, and love putting words together in ways that feel good to sing and sound good together….

I remember so vividly the first song I ever wrote. It was called 'Different People.'.

Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times..

I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last….

Large eyes were admired in Greece, where they still prevail. They are the finest of all when they have the internal look, which is not common. The st….

I did not initially take to the music of the Ramones, because I had never really heard of them before. Allan Arkush had given me a cassette of the Ra….

Public space can be a lot better with some private space to contradict it and vice versa. It keeps the system alive. If the system is just one thing,….

All religions do not point to God.

When somebody asks me "What are your comic books about?" or "What are your songs about?" there is no answer and I feel like an idiot not having an an….

A label is like a bank with all these really important relationships, and maybe an aesthetic or a point of view. But if you only want to release two ….