Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan.

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.

My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need something to hang a song on, to give it some kind of presence and form. For me, Susie is that.

I've never been interested in being relevant.

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.