You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.

You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.

A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line.

'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.

All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records but if you were a kid you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn't always say - you wouldn't dare say it was beautiful.

The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe.

Sky of blackness and sorrow, sky of love, sky of tears. Sky of glory and sadness, sky of mercy, sky of fear.