If you're up there [on stage] thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there and it's not going to happen.So trying to learn how to overcome those - which is a normal thing to do. You're in front of a lot of people. People are going to get very self-conscious. So you have to learn to sort of overcome that tendency towards self-consciousness and just blow it wide open. And you jump in and join all those people that are out there enjoying what you're doing together.

The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe.

From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed off .410 on my lap, through the Badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path.

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

The only thing I know as I get older is that I don't really need to be No. 1.

The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually.

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.