Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.

I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.

Everyone wants to feel that they matter.

I've never been interested in being relevant.

That's what we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something quite different.

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.