It feels like every single song is a chapter from a truly important novel.

Some people know why they make music, I suppose. But we never talk about what we're doing. Ever.

...how impossible itis to really make a choice, when the best choice of all is an option youcouldn’t even imagine.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.

The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.

This is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding-- it's got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl.

I think there are a lot of crazy guys that I've played with in the past. Wayne VanDorp, when I played in Chicago. He wasn't a big name, but my God was he nuts.

A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.

The Dark Backward. Bill Paxton is in it with me. Wayne Newton. James Caan. Adam Rifkin wrote and directed it. It was made a number of years ago and very odd. Not for the squeamish.

The quiet mind is richer than a crown....Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss.

I've been asked if I ever get the DTs. I don't know. It's hard to tell where Hollywood ends and the DTs begin.