Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

You know, when you're relaxed, you're putting it out there, and then it comes, oh, I can do that.

I tried to give up drugs by drinking.

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

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.

The currents rage so deep upon us, this is the age of video violence.

One thing I've often thought is that I never want to tell anybody else what to do. It's hard enough to figure out what I want to do.