I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely.

At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.

Early on I realized when you write a song about someone, it flatters them on some level, and gives you a lot of room to move within a relationship. A song can kind of get the girl, for sure.

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.