More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.

The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.

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

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

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.

When I look at myself, I don't see the man I wanted to be.

If you're up there [on stage] thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there and it's not going to happen.So trying to learn how to overcome those - which is a normal thing to do. You're in front of a lot of people. People are going to get very self-conscious. So you have to learn to sort of overcome that tendency towards self-consciousness and just blow it wide open. And you jump in and join all those people that are out there enjoying what you're doing together.