"My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege."

"I do think sometimes there's danger in guest appearance mania. I've seen too many examples that sound cool on paper, like 'Oh, get that guy to sing the hook on that guy's song,' and then that's all it is. It's a cool idea that sounds good on paper."

"It's pretty cool that people will pay for something even though they don't have to. It's totally different now to back in the day. Now you're paying for a record because you believe in the band. In the future that will be the only time people will pay for albums, because there's some kind of connection."

"It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas."

"Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat."

"Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water."

"If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV."

"St. Louis has a lot of weird food customs that you don't see other places - and a lot of great ethnic neighborhoods. There's a German neighborhood. A great old school Italian neighborhood, with toasted ravioli, which seems to be a St. Louis tradition. And they love provolone cheese in St. Louis."