“The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.”

“One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant.”

“Bookman isn't a stable man. He has a lot of problems that run very, very deep." But he was really good at giving head.”

“People are going to say, ‘Well, it’s not very truthful.’ But a songwriter doesn’t care about what’s truthful. What he cares about is what should’ve happened, what could’ve happened. That’s its own kind of truth. It’s like people who read Shakespeare plays, but they never see a Shakespeare play. I think they just use his name.”

“For all the things we say to our children for their own good, very little good ever comes of it.”

“It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.”