I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

My God is rock'n'roll.

I love women, I think they're great.

This violent rage that turned inward cannot be helped by drink.

I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.

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.

I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.