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.

If you see me performing, you're going, that guy is simply the most extroverted guy I've ever seen. But if you've seen me very often on a daily basis and all the while growing up, I was very, very introverted. Very introverted. So I have sort of the extremes of both of those characteristics.

They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man.

I heard a political message in rock music. A liberation message. A message of freedom. I heard it in Elvis' voice.

I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.

I want a thousand guitars . . .

Judge said, what you got in your defense son? Fifty-seven channels and nothing on.