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.

Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music.

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995.

I beg young people to travel.

As performers grow older, I reckon there are two ways they can go. They can either be up there, playing more deeply from their guts than ever, or they can be phoning it in so crassly that it leaves a lump in your throat as you leave the venue at the end of the show.

I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts.