I don’t leave my neighborhood. I don’t go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block… so I don’t do much driving…...

I’m older than I was, and I’m still washed-up, and I haven’t changed my music one iota. It’s just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.

It’s not safe, but yeah, I can flip a piano over. You take it on this side where there’s not really as much weight.

She’s a brick, and I’m drowning slowly.

I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you

People rush around in the summer to try and find like-minded musicians to put together. Packages are all the rage. I prefer keeping it smaller, having a tour that’s manageable — both for me and...

The piano is just a different animal. It’s expensive, it’s big, it’s heavy, and it doesn’t fit in the mix easily. Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on...

The other reason Rufus and I are great together is that we’re both really lazy. The rehearsing, the sound checks — he’s actually worse than I am, and that’s something. To get us to do...

Everything I write is personal, really. Even when I’m sarcastic, it’s quite personal. And on this record, from the production to the singing to the performances, I got it really honest. To the modern ear,...

I had to play a George Harrison song at a benefit a couple nights ago, and it was really hard for me. Obviously it wasn’t my world.

It’s a tough thing to know that when you’re making your album, you’re going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real...

Next door, there’s an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I’m sorry, I...

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.

You never know when you put out an album that’s unique whether it’ll get beat up for it or not.

Life barrels on like a runaway train where the passengers change, they don’t change anything, you get off someone else can get on.

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.

I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in...

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up… and we’re still fighting it.

Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone.. than I ever have before.

I was pretty much a dork growing up. Going up in front of a crowd and being an idiot was a relief when I was a kid. But talking to two or three people at...

White people don’t sing together very often, and when they do, it’s about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony.

I start songs all the time. If I weren’t so lazy, I would finish them. It’s like when I have a deadline I have to. I always feel very lucky that I am forced to...

Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.

The main thing is that we performed the songs, then went to the speakers – if we liked it, we kept it; if we didn’t, then we did it again. That seems like the most...