...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people tend to run into you and believe you are your characters. And I suppose the funny thing is the longer you go, you do become sort of some version of [your characters]. You both diverge from them - you know - you live, but you also permanently inhabit that geography and that mental space - and so you do morph a little bit. We do become what we imagine.

I studied other singers, so I would learn how to phrase, and learn how to breathe. And the main thing was, I learned how to inhabit my song.

Out of our way mister, you best keep.

The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.

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

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

Most of these - most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography.