I don't want to take myself too seriously. That's my lesson to myself.

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

Oh, I steal things all the time. It's just something I do. I stopped caring a long time ago.

In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.

Nobody steals from Creed Bratton and gets away with it. The last person to do this disappeared. His name? Creed Bratton.

I liked back in the sixties where you'd turn on the radio and go 'Oh that's Hendrix, that's Creedence Clearwater, that's The Doors, there's The Grass Roots, The Monkees, there's Big Brother.' You could just instantly hear it and tell. But in the eighties and nineties there's no way you could do that.

No matter how you get here or where you end up, human beings have this miraculous gift to make that place home.