I think when you're a child, you just cling to the basics, which is the basic story of Jesus and the crucifixion and hell and eternal punishment and the flames. This was all stuff that was - forget when you're young.

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet.

The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.

Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse.