Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage talking to the audience looking at them and smiling that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now but there are still moments of awkwardness.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.

There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.

Like anyone who goes to college you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.

I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself the most comforting words of all this too shall pass.