But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right.

It's the nature of human consciousness to look for trouble constantly, and we find it. We find it.

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport