The music is pretty relentless. You've got to find some way of letting the audience breathe for a minute, give them a little bit of air - but not too much. Otherwise it would get real intense. The room would get very tense.

Sometimes, at night you could hear the whole damn city crying.

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.

You can beat on your chest, hell, any monkey can.

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

I have been on stage on a few occasions where I felt I couldn't escape the interior of my - my interior thoughts. But Peter Wolf once said, what's the strangest thing you can do on stage? Think about what you're doing.

An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it's something that you fight for.