I'd always wanted to make a record with Jim Dickinson, and I'd known about his boys for years, ... He reminded me that when they were 13 or 14 years old they had a punk rock band and I'd called him and wanted to make a record with them then.

When the road gets dark - And you can no longer see - Just let my love throw a spark - And have a little faith in me.

Whatever your hands find to do, you must do with all your heart.

I'd always wanted to make a record with Jim Dickinson, and I'd known about his boys for years, ... He reminded me that when they were 13 or 14 years old they had a punk rock band and I'd called him and wanted to make a record with them then.

My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail?

[But] they can't kill music. God knows, they've tried. But music always wins. As long as there's kids coming up that have a passion. All the bean counters in the world can't kill that. You know? You just can't. They can try, of course, to feed you the most puerile, benign horse manure, but some kid's going to come along and demand something more than that.

He was the kind of kid you did not want to sit by. He kept his boogers in his desk, he wore a neck tie.