They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top.

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.

I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.

I couldn't see passion as a bad thing.

I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do.

The Blue album, there’s hardly a dishonest note in the vocals. At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn’t pretend in my life to be strong. Or to be happy. But the advantage of it in the music was that there were no defenses there, either.

The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.