My wife called me a mule. She once said, "I didn't marry a man; I married a mule!" I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.

If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead

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.