The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.

Almost all human who can form a sentence will eventually let you in on the fact that their lives are very difficult and sometimes very hard to manage.

I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.

The visceral nature of hard rock music, the fact that you can have this sledge hammering sound - and that you can hook a lyric up and a feeling up to something and make the lyric jump into this machine that crushes. That has always been really attractive to me, that kind of power.

Life forgets me but will not let me forget Holds me down and tells me that I'm free.