When I was younger, I used to hate Germany. I hated the country, the people, the language, the culture, everything! But over the years I've grown to really appreciate the German people.

I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happeningto them.

Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.

I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.