The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.

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

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

The Catholic religion at the time was much darker and more mysterious. The entire mass was in Latin. The church was - if you go to my church now, it's incredibly bright inside. But at - when I was young, it was very dark inside. And it was just the difference in the way that they've painted it since I've gone there. And it strives for a very different and welcoming spirit.

We've got no fairytale ending, in God's hands our fate is complete. Your heaven's here in my heart, our love's this dust beneath my feet.

I couldn't worry about whether I`m gonna make it onstage or not. You can't. You just gotta do it. And if you do, you do, and if you don't, you don't, and then something else happens. That's the point of the live performance.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.