I can concentrate on my art.

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

Take a walk on the wild side.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Life's like a mayonnaise soda.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.

Three things it would be extremely difficult to play a show without: makeup, my vocal cords and pants.

I had lived in fear of the fabled terrifying visions that assail chronic drinkers, but which had not yet attacked me.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

Ask yourself, 'How did God bless me today?' If you do that long enough and with faith, you will find yourself remembering blessings.

Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

The Europeans have fallen away from religion and the church while the rest of the world is seemingly more religious. I don't know how to explain it.