"Haters and doubters got me here, but supporters keep me here."

“Hard to find a better drug than a song you love.”

“I don't yet know what style will be required for my next novel, but my sense is that each book will involve a new relationship to language.”

“No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.”

“Performing is really close to being in studio but performing takes over because being in the studio is two things; the first thing is that it is really beautiful to improvise and jam, but afterwards it becomes hard because it's very rare that a song will come together quickly. Most of the time it's back and forth and trial and error. You start questioning whether the song is good or not. So that can be quite tough.”

“Whatever you believe, be open to being wrong”

“He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.”

“My favorite band is probably The Cure. We can throw Talking Heads in there too, I listen to them a lot. But The Cure.”

“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.”