Songwriting ability is a gift. After a while, you come to realize, "I've really been blessed. I can write these things and it makes me happy, and it makes millions of people happy." It's an obligation, it's bigger than you. It's the only true magic I know. It's not pulling a rabbit out of a hat; it's real. It's your soul floating out to theirs.

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

I have never been comfortable being the front man.

I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.

I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.

There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer.

You belong somewhere you feel free.