Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.

The smell of the carpet in a hotel room is the same everywhere.

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know.

I am a believer in discipline; it takes a lot to do well. You need discipline for those little excursions into the chaotic that make life interesting.

The whole thing with recording is you have to know when to turn off the tape machine and just stop recording because you want to keep fixing, fixing, fixing, you know?