I haven't lost my innocence particularly. I'm always ready to pretend I haven't. Yeah, it is a shame in a way.
Life isn't moving quickly - time moves very quickly.
I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.
Every place is determined by the characters who are there.
It's part of me to get off on those moments where... well, what people would call attention. Obviously, that isn't the be-all and end-all of life, but at the states of creativity that I've reached, well, it helps the lyrics along a little bit.
Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.