I use a lot of humor in my writing. But it's completely black humor.

I guess some people like to just stick with their sound, like Weezer or something, but I think I just try to keep it as close to my real life, in a Neil Young sort of way, as possible.

I've been known to just pass out instantaneously, like, anywhere.

People do get mad at me for falling asleep sometimes, and it's the most frustrating thing. I can't help it.

I've never gotten in too much trouble with alcohol. I've never had a drinking problem, really.

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time. I'm the kind of person who will set time aside to do something and then do everything but that thing.

I've always been a deep sleeper; because I come from such a large family - there are 10 kids - I could sleep through anything.

I was used to hanging out late after playing a gig - you mix adrenaline with alcohol and you can stay up all night.

an old villa surrounded by a garden looked to them like the image of a comforting home, the dream of an idyll long past.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.

I'm always sort of reflecting on what I do on what I've done. Usually before I make a new album, I'll listen to the previous albums just to see where I've been.

Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

I could have been you, you could have been me. One small change that shapes your destiny.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

I'm not as involved in every little thing as I used to be.

The road that I'm on is a path that I didn't choose. It chose me. I'm just trying to walk it, and to do the best that I can to honor and respect it.