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

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 know that`s a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.

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 heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.

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 fast is, to me, dizzying.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid`s place.