I think there's just a lot of compassion in art. Again, when you're doing something that resonates with somebody else, you're going through an experience another person has had, whether it's been a painful experience or a joyous experience or a happy experience.

Everybody has their own level of doing their music. ... Mine just happened to resonate over the years, in one way and another, with a significant enough number of people so that I could do it professionally.

What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it's very inclusive.

Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.

People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.

I can't draw. But I can draw with sound. That's the most useful thing I learned in terms of what my craft is... The arrangements were mine. They were little lines and stuff that I had written myself... And I was locked into this idea that vocals didn't count, melodies didn't count, songwriting craftsmanship didn't count. The only thing that counted was high arching guitar solos...

I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music.