I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all that much about any of it. I am at this point, more of an observer/journalist.

As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.

I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes potentially had, in their own hands, the record you now have in yours is kind of cool. When the musician has departed, it can give the thing a unique power.

We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.