The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

I want fast food, pretty naked girls preferably tattooed.

I've learned a huge amount because I've been tested and, more importantly, I've been trusted.

Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.

The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday.

Once she woke with untamed lover's face between her legs, now he's cooled and stifled and it's she who has to beg.

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.