I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

Maybe my biggest aim is to bring a sense of that old mystery of rock 'n' roll into the new age of today's instantaneous and fast world.

Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.

He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.