Take risks. Take chances. Don't be afraid. You gotta go into life brave.

I actually wrote the song first as "well, it's 9 o'clock on a Saturday." That bit. Then I said, You know what? It needs some kind of an introduction to kind of set the mood and set the flavor. So I just played this kind of cocktail lounge thing, the hustle and bustle of waitresses going by - that kind of thing.

She's got a smile that heals me.

You only beat me if you get me to hate.

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.