I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

I don't really have any people in my life who aren't gypsies.

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.