Every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain.

When you're a parent, you sing better. It becomes a pure pleasure, rather than something I have to do.

Most of my songs are love ballads and things to do with sadness and torture and pain.

I've been in pain, hope it doesn't show. I've been insane, well the time is slow.

We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.