As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.

Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger.

You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.

I don't know why I go to extremes.

I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.

There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.

I would say the songs that have different lyrics. I always write the music first, and there's a couple of songs on this box set that have different lyrics from what ended up on the final recording.