The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

I come from a minimum wage working world, as we all did for at least some part of our lives, and that is never out of my rearview. I've never forgotten how much your feet hurt after you've stood on them for like 12 hours. And how the drudgery of a job you hate craps on your entire life; how you treat other people, how you treat yourself, and it really was getting to me.

I wonder how Colin Powell sleeps at night. I would like to have a word with him because he lied. He lied. He lied to me. He lied to my face through the camera at the U.N.

I don't need music for the good times. I don't have that kind of need. Music doesn't serve me like that.

I like how I write better than how I speak.

The reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century. And the fact that we are going to have problems with fossil fuel is a given.

The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.