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.

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

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

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.

Why should he be spared?''Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared.

She whispered, "Even with a broken hand, you are the knight I'd most want and trust to rescue me-and I know you can do it. You are the boldest, bravest, most noble knight in the Holy Empire.

For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.

Many Americans follow pro basketball from November through June, for reasons that I found unexplainable, other than the fact that they were overly fascinated with soaring armpits.

I chose Journalism by default. I always loved TV, and I had no idea what else to do, so I studied what interested me.

When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a pitch for a novel and sell it to your publisher.

One of the things I love about cinema is the range.

A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.

Discipline enabled Heaven to be filled with light; discipline enabled the angels to be immaculate and holy.

Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.