For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.

Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet.

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

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

[The Catholic religion] was something I carried with me, never forgot, brought into my music. And it's been in my music ever since.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk.