But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.

You can't shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains.

I can get onstage and cut that off and be superinstinctive. To be a good live performer, you have to be instinctive. It's like, to walk in the jungle, or to do anything where there's a certain tightrope wire aspect you need to be instinctive. And you have to be comfortable at it also.

I had tried to go to college, and I didn't really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people gave me a lot of trouble, and I was hounded off the campus - I just looked different and acted different, so I left school.

I go to put my arm around you and you give me a look like I'm way out of bounds.

Music doesn't tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That's what it told me.

For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live.