All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling.

A great rock band searches for the same kind of combustible force that fueled the expansion of the universe after the big bang. You want the earth to shake and spit fire. You want the sky to split apart and for God to pour out.

I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information.

When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I admired did. That's what Bob Dylan did, that's what Frank Sinatra did, Hank Williams did, in very different ways.

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul.

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.