You've got to be able to hold a lot of contradictory ideas in your mind without going nuts. I feel like to do my job right, when I walk out on stage I've got to feel like it's the most important thing in the world. Also I've got to feel like, well, it's only rock and roll. Somehow you've got to believe both of those things.

More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy.I want to be that guy myself very often.

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.

Go-kart Mozart was checking out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside.

A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line.