The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

If you see me performing, you're going, that guy is simply the most extroverted guy I've ever seen. But if you've seen me very often on a daily basis and all the while growing up, I was very, very introverted. Very introverted. So I have sort of the extremes of both of those characteristics.

When I was young I was very shy and that was my personality. I was a pretty sensitive kid and quite neurotic, filled with a lot of anxiety.

Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us apart.

I didn't have a blueprint from my childhood that I could call on, which is an enormous deficit when you're trying to put together a family life. I didn't see a family life where men were thriving inside of it. You know, my dad tended to blame the family for his inability to achieve what he wanted to achieve, you know? So, unfortunately, I was coming from that particular frame of mind.

Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only.

A great singer has to learn how to inhabit a song.