“By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.”

“My nails are my rhythm section, when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.”

“You could no more make an agreement with them than you could nail currant jelly to a wall - and the failure to nail current jelly to a wall is not due to the nail; it is due to the currant jelly.”

“And every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back I hope you feel it.”

“I fought my company [Sony] tooth and nail when they stopped putting out singles.”

“I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.”

“I bit down three nails rooting for the Heat.”

“I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood. Especially if it's me!”

“Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.”

“I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.”