It takes a unique woman to see me as any sort of catch.
I’ve been making music for thirty-six years and, you know, I’m still just as in love with working on music now as I was thirty-six years ago.
When famous people are nice to me, it feels good, so I’m happy to hang out with them. It’s better than being at home, depressed, reading ‘The Hobbit.’
I’m straight, but I love going to house music clubs and flirting with women and gay men.
When someone comes to me and says the music I’ve made has affected them emotionally, that’s the most gratifying part of my job.
Because we find somethings distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem them criminal.
I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.
The midlife crisis you’re having at 30 is indulgent, but the midlife crisis you have at 45 is to an extent thrust upon you.
For his sake I’m sorry that Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil, but for our sake and the sake of music I’m glad he did.
If someone is cynical and doesn’t vote and ends up with a crummy job in a crummy country with a decimated environment, they only have themselves to blame.
I know, in my heart of hearts, I don’t do things for money.
Music is just air moving around.
There’s really no reason for any musician, writer, actor to ever take themselves seriously. If you work in a needle exchange, take yourself seriously. You’re doing good work. If you’re involved in hostage negotiations and saving lives, you can have a sense of entitlement.
Sacha Baron Cohen is one of my heroes.
I need an audience way more than an audience needs me.
If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren’t going to be interested.
In the course of my life, I’ve made some happy songs but it’s the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me.
I’ve made records that everyone has hated and I’ve loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I’ve deemed, at best, mediocre.
I’d strike the sun if it insulted me.
If we base our belief systems on the humble assumption that the complexities of the world are ontologically beyond our understanding, then maybe our belief systems will make more sense and end up causing less suffering.