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.

A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.

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.

The body becomes the carrier for the work. It's not really about the physical body; it really becomes the apparatus that carries and moves the work. I don't really consider the body as much; I look at it as a tool.

I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have soul in the hole. If that isn't there, I don't see the point.