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" When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure. "

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" Don't look back, because someone might be gaining on you. "

" All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want it to get in the way of what someone else's understanding is. It's not really about anything. At the same time, it will find some meaning. "

" Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name. "

" If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were. "

" You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone. "

" We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. "

" Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends. "

" It's hard to win when you always lose. "

" Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism, anything you do seems like you did it so somebody would see you do it, like showing up at the right parties. "

" Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it. "

" Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way. "

" The only thing worse than being in the Hall of Fame is not being in the Hall of Fame. "

" I didn't really want to be part of a clique or a niche. But I also was looking for my own voice, as a writer, y'know? And a world I could call my own. "

" I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture. "

" I have a Chamberlain I bought from some surfers in Westwood many years ago. It's an early analog synthesizer; it operates on tape loops. It has 60 voices - everything from galloping horses to owls to rain to every instrument in the orchestra. "

" I look for things that are left of center, something you've only seen your whole life, but never heard. Hit it! With a stick! I have a guitar made out of a 2x4 that I bought in Cleveland. "

" If you are making a record, you are the one saying 'action', and you are the one saying 'cut,' and you have to be sure that the most interesting thing is not going on outside the frame. "

" I bark my voice out through a closed throat, pretty much. It's more, perhaps, like a dog in some ways. It does have its limitations, but I'm learning different ways to keep it alive. "

" I don't know if any genuine, meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla. "

" You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs. "

" I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox. "

" I used to think that all great recordings happened at about 3 A.M. "

" My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult. "

" I don't like listening to records a lot after they're done. There's just no real nourishment there for me. "

" If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal. "

" You know when you throw a party, you think people will show up and no one will like each other. It's like that with music - parts of your musical psyche have never met other parts. You wonder if you should get them together. "

" Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk. "

" George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him. "