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.

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.

If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he's the hero of the day.

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.

I never saw no miracle of science that did not go from a blessing to a curse.