I know there will be no more tears in heaven.

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.

I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten.

I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him.

For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.