People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts.

The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life.

Most of the time when people say something sounds like Steely Dan, and I listen to it, it doesn't. And I'm not even sure what they're talking about.

From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.