Not too many songwriters, when they write songs go for broke. When someone does who's really good, it's astonishing. There's a reason a three-minute song can devastate you, or make you get up and dance, stop what you're doing and go, 'What is that?' It just hits you. And it's a very potent thing you're playing around with.

People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.

I want the principles of a timeless muse, I want to eradicate my negative views.

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

I write whatever shows up. That's good enough for me. I'm part of the first generation that wants to still do original material and not tour around as an oldies act.

All the people have gone to war leaving no interrogator to mind.

All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't lose anything; it would be timeless, in the subject matter and the literacy of the lyrics.