From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.

It doesn't matter what happened last night or the night - or tomorrow night. It's all about what you're doing with this audience right now.

What you were singing about was believable and convincing, that's the key to a great singer.

The Catholic religion at the time was much darker and more mysterious. The entire mass was in Latin. The church was - if you go to my church now, it's incredibly bright inside. But at - when I was young, it was very dark inside. And it was just the difference in the way that they've painted it since I've gone there. And it strives for a very different and welcoming spirit.

The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.

I want a thousand guitars . . .

You still had to find the music inside your language. You know, it was - that's a big part of what sort of moved me to begin writing the book. I wrote a little essay and I felt, yeah, this is a good voice. This is a good feeling. It feels like me.