When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.

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.

Love binds all souls in sacred harmony.

Obsessions don't subside. They evolve.

Just by doing what rich do... can make you also rich... Rich drink coca-cola so you can too!

Science is magic that works.

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.

I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.

To make a film you have to dream a film... that's true of poetry as well.

Every pilot thinks they're the best pilot in the world. I think I'm the best pilot.

It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene

If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.