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.

I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.

Kashmir is my last resort. I think, if I truly deserve it one day, I should go there and stay there for quite a while. Or if I really need it at any point, it should be my haven, my Shangri-la.

I listen to the crowds [laughs]... I like Blind Melon very much.

I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings.

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.

The States were much more fun. L.A. was L.A. It's not L.A. now. L.A. infested with jaded 12-year-olds is not the L.A. that I really dug.