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

There's a beauty in work and I love it, all different kinds of work. That's what I consider it. Rock is my job, and that's my work. And I work my ass off, you know.

It doesn't matter what happened last night or the night - or tomorrow night. It's all about what you're doing with this audience right now.

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.

[People] are trying to - they're trying to create something that solves a series of very complex problems inside of them or in their history. And I think when I unknowingly - when I went to do that, that's what I was - I was trying to integrate all of these very difficult things that I'd been unable to integrate in my life and in my life with my parents.

Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz between what's flesh and what's fantasy.

I don't want to make a record like in the '50s or the '60s or the '70s. I want to make a record like today, that`s right now.