It's new, it's improved, it's old fashioned.

Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism, anything you do seems like you did it so somebody would see you do it, like showing up at the right parties.

If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal.

And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.

My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.

When you're a kid and you're trying to find your own voice, it's rather daunting to hear somebody like Howlin' Wolf, because you know that you'll never achieve that.

Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.