If I played just one song from every album, I would be onstage for two and a half hours. No one wants a show that long.

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.

After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

The universe is based on sullen entropy; It falls apart as it goes on

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

Serving people is more important to God than the religious activities we engage in

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

And now none of it could be undone. That was the exquisite irony: the act that had undone everything could not itself be undone.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.

Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.

I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me.

The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other.

You need to have dignity towards how you are, how you dress, how you behave. Very important.

In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing.