The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.

I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.

I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

You don't meet a lot of people that you really like. I don't anyway.

Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.

Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.

I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.