I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.

I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate.

Physical pain is my friend. I pursue it every night for four hours.

Me and crazy Janey were making love in the dirt singing our birthday songs.

An unfulfilled life makes a hard man.

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.