The work is constant. There's a time for rest, but I don't believe in getting comfortable just because everyone says you've arrived.

My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.

When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.

I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little.

I try not to have a day pass where I don't read something from the Bible. It's like my sustenance to me.

When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get when I have a creative insight. Not just the voice, but all the creativity - the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved. There is a high. There is an emotional experience that happens when everything comes together... I made music as consistently as I did, especially back in the day, because it made me feel so good... When everything is on, it's a wonderful feeling.

Tell me who I've got to be, to get some reciprocity