When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.

It's the emotion...each word has got a connotation and symbolism and the thing is finding what's behind the word-what meaning it has and what emotion. I'm really into vocal repetition as a definite art form.

I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

I was like one of those newspapers, those periodicals. There's all different kinds of alcoholics. There's the everyday kind: that's the consistent one. That's what people think an alcoholic is-but an alcoholic is basically just someone who's allergic to alcohol. That's all it means. It's just an allergy.

[The music is about ] for the purpose of getting people to an excitement level. They feel something, they feel emotions. They're going to go home after that concert and remember it.Maybe they got something out of the experience rather than intellectualizing about what songs mean which is the whole head trip.

You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay.