Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It's a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one. You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life...but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what's missing.

I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed.

There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.

I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.