The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.

Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

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.

I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint.