My dad was young. He went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. That didn't seem to be in the nature of - in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really. They were - we had a cousin that went to - off to Brown University. It was like a nuclear explosion took place.

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

Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.

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

The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know.

What you were singing about was believable and convincing, that's the key to a great singer.

When I was young, it was sort of built to intimidate. Even on this very local level in this very small church in this small town, it still held that sort of - held you in the palm of its darkness.