Do Tasmanian devils really exist?

I like to interpret ‘Call me a River’, as if I’m saying, ‘Now you’re telling me you love me after all that, and I’m telling you to shove off.’ That’s my interpretation. But I would...

The first album’s influences were James Taylor and Coco, and then they switched to Credence Clearwater Revival and Rolling Stones on the second.

It is easy for me to go play a rock show, I have been doing that all my life and I love that.

The album is a definite departure. I haven’t written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.

You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.

There’s way easier ways to make money, let’s just put it that way.

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that’s all. You sang other people’s songs. That’s all there were.

Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age...

I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

That’s why these songs have lasted as long as they have because they’re just about feelings that don’t change. They are love songs, they are not specific, those kinds of feelings don’t change.

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal...

It’s too easy to do your own site to not have one these days. I guess everyone has one.

You’re creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it’s their experience, not yours. I’ll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about ‘my’ broken heart.

I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.

They don’t have the edge that I need. I’m not interested in reliving 1988.

I’d always loved poetry and I’d always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn’t thought of putting the two together until around that time.

Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

I guess I watch more MTV than you do. I’m a junkie for it.

I didn’t really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest.

There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there’s this film-noir character of a woman who’s sort of losing it in a room.

Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music...

Kids don’t go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet.

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes...

I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.

They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.

If I had a rocket launcher, some son of a bitch would die.

I don’t think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don’t: there is nowhere to go but down.

I had to get out of my record deal that I signed with my previous band and get a full solo record deal going so, with all of the paperwork that, that entails it did...

I don’t get mad too much.

Well, you know, it’s been interesting because an album is just a snapshot of where you are at that time. Not all pictures of everybody are just in jeans and a ‘T’ shirt, or a...

Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.

Maybe if they start playing new rock bands videos, then maybe but there is no point in a guy like me spending 250 grand for a video that no one is ever going to see.

I also dance to music that makes me feel sexy in front of a mirror.

I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don’t have to prove anything at this point other than what I’m doing.

I’m just gonna be doing stuff that I really enjoy doing. I’m not gonna attempt to be current in any way other than the fact that people will like what I’m doing currently.

To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it’s pretty tough to top them, you know.

If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all...

I just wanted to do something musical. I had just left a band that was number one at the time on all of the charts, both albums and singles.

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart.

When you drive by Radio City and you see your name up there and it’s only ‘your’ name. I just went ‘ooh’. I thought this is really like looking at another person.

To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you’re set. If you don’t want it, pull it out and...

Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.

I give myself strength by staying away from any music.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.

Well, you know, if you do 200 shows a year, they’re not all going to be like Castle Donnington.

The second half of the ’60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.