Rock stars are good at making noise.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.

Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world.

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.

God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim