When I finish a book, I'm so exhausted that I'm sort of letting myself think that this could be the end.

I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.

Some artists see a gig as an audience worshipping them. I think it is about having a great time together. I have a part as the singer. An audience has a part. Playing a gig doesn't make me high on myself.

Let me say here and now that faith has never done me any good, only doubt. So that is what has become my testament.

I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.

All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.

The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It wasn't something I'd think about until I'd turn the machine on again.