“Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.”

“I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.”

“Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.”

“There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.”

“There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.”

“The most profound voice of any musician I have ever heard. Joe (Strummer) took his message to the world, and the world listened. He managed to influence more than one generation with his innovative and determined manner, and I am not alone in repeatedly turning to his thoughts and lyrics when searching for inspiration. The Clash was the greatest rock band. They wrote the rule book for U2.”

“You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It's a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one. You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life...but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what's missing.”