I tend to be pessimistic. I want to believe in hope.

The moment you begin to depend on audience reaction, you're doing the wrong thing. You're doin' it wrong, it's a mistake, it's not right. You can't allow yourself, no matter what, to depend on them.

Sometimes, at night you could hear the whole damn city crying.

I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information.

And at the time, for one of the few times in my life I didn't have a band, I just had myself and the guitar, so I was going to have to do something with just my voice, just the guitar and just my songs that was going to move someone enough to give me a shot. So I wrote songs that were very lyrically alive and lyrically dense. And they were unique, but it really came out of the motivation to - or I understood it was - I was going to have to make my mark that way.

When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac.

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