The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

What might save us, me and you, is if the Russians love their children too.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

There's no religion but sex and music.

I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.