The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know.

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

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

Me and crazy Janey were making love in the dirt singing our birthday songs.

For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive

Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up being quite a musical experience either way.