It turned out so well because it was the first album that I could identify with in terms of lyrics. ("Captain Fantastic") It was passionate...I could associate myself with every song...It's a unique album in our history. This was the story of us..."Curtains", the lyrics to that are so beautiful because it sums up our friendship so much, and our relationship.

My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care.

I can't think of anything until I've got printed words in front of me. I never wake up in the middle of the night with a song in my head.

I get high in the evening sniffing pots of glue.

He [george W. Bush] lived up - well, he was someone that I wouldn't have voted for. His policies were not mine.

That's just a part of being an artist: you can't write great stuff all the time, because if you did, then you'd be inhuman. The human side of people is that sometimes they fail.

But until we get rid of that shame, then people are going to stay underground, they are not going to get tested, and we're facing an uphill battle [with AIDS].