I feel like if you let someone else create your vision, then it's not true to your band. No one can ever do as good as you want, or as good as you can yourself.

It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.

Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

It won't be long before another day, were gonna have a good time. And no ones gonna take that time away. You can stay as long as you like

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.

I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.