One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.

Early risers catch the world waking and see its true colors.

Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.

Basically it takes me very little time to write a song. If I find myself taking more than an hour to do it I usually forget it, and try something else. I like to work quickly; I never like to waste any time. I never write half a song and come back to it later at all. It all has to be done at once. I lose interest if it doesn't.

My Mother set me on the right track, Marty Robbins made me want to write songs, and Jesus Christ did the rest.

I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music.

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.