I tend to deal with things in a very serious manner.
Usually, when I'm having a good time, I don't think about it that much. I tend to become more reflective or introspective.
I find the idea of doing what you do over and over again to be incredibly boring.
But I don't let my bad feelings rule my life. I acknowledge them because I can't pretend they aren't there.
Don't Say No' was the first album I'd done that I felt completely comfortable with.
It would be easier to be more mysterious, but I try to be accessible.
It's very important for me to try to get to the people. I'm not shy. It's nice to give the fans a little extra, to let them inside.
Studio work is very methodical, while live concerts must be very spontaneous.
When I was a kid, I was interested in folk music. But rock represented power, and I became the best rock guitarist in my school.
My parents are proud of me now. However, when I first became involved with rock music, they were afraid.
I'm not a poet. So the writing process is a difficult one for me.
I don't like pictures of me showing my hair sticking up in back.
Seeing a young band, seeing that hunger and the raw spontaneity, is good for me. It keeps me young, so to speak.
I don't know if anyone necessarily looks at themselves and what they do as being terribly significant one way or another.
It certainly is a positive thing… having a trademark.
The whole British music scene of the mid-sixties had a pretty profound effect on me.
British rock & roll became the gospel for American kids like me.
I mean, I would always like to play bigger places and play for more people.
I had great trouble believing in myself, so I didn't believe in my success - I didn't enjoy my success, which I thought was insane.
We don't want to categorize our music. Some people say you need a definite musical direction to give a group visibility.
I try to keep the theatrics to a minimum and let the music do the talking.
I'm the only person I know who's never had a regular job.
I don't make grandiose, prophetic statements in my songs.
I'd gone to New York at an early age, and I got beat up a little bit, emotionally. So I thought I'd go home and go to music school.
I wouldn't want to end up in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the 'Master of Hip-Hop Samples,' but you take what you can get.
I have a great deal of respect for myself as a musician and a writer, even if I'm not doing it anymore.
