I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life. And perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree. I was looking for - when I was looking for a voice to mix with my voice, I put on my father's work clothes, as I say in the book, and I went to work.

You know hearts these days are cheap.

But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.

I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist.

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out. Then I go perform and I play it and I get this immediate feedback from the audience. So that's been the pattern of my life.