Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself

I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed as the Big Bubba of Rebellion, High Priest of Protest, the Duke of Disobedience, Leader of the Freeloaders, Kaiser of Apostasy, Archbishop of Anarchy, the Big Cheese. Horrible titles any way you want to look at it. All code words for Outlaw.

I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age.

Fearing not that I'd become my enemy In the instant that I preach

You had no faith to lose and you know it.

Disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark.