I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.

Tolerance can lead to learning something.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

There is trouble in my mind There is dark, there's dark and there is light There is no order, and there is chaos, and there is crime There is no one home tonight, in the empire of my mind

It doesn't always have a shape,Almost never does it have a name,It maybe has a pitchfork, maybe has a tail,But evil is alive and well.

But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.

Its a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?

There's only one thing that's certainAnd that's everybody, everybody's hurting

I liked getting the Grammy more than not getting it.

Bob Dylan led me to this kind of music - and it's his and ours. And it's nobody else's.

I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't overintellectualize music as a special medium that only some people deserve to do. I think it's something you do if you put the work in.

Sitting on my bed with all these things I used to love but not loving them anymore, I just wanted to set them on fire. That's when I knew I was never going to be all right again.

Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Gluten is this Generation's Tobacco

Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.

When I see some of the people who are glorified in magazines these days - who are so thin it's bordering on sickness - I just feel exhausted.

I'm a big believer in spontaneity.

Never underestimate the human capacity for delusion.

Winning isn't getting ahead of others, it is getting ahead of yourself.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.