There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.

I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away.

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.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.