I'm never argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, I don't think. And more than ever, I've had to be willing to fight just to get records released, or just to be able to walk away with a little bit of self-respect and pride.

Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me.

They don't make coats for this kind of cold

The process of making music is more interesting to me than the end result. If I was a cook, I'd be more interested in cooking food than eating food.

A lot of my songs, they're like puzzle pieces, and there's just one way to put them together. You could, if you needed to, get the scissors out and cut up things to make them work. But I don't want to do that.

Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows?

While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver.