If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

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

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.

The world may be utterly crazy, and life may be labour in vain; But I'd rather be silly than lazy, and would not quit life for its pain.

I don't want to keep playing the same formula over and over again, otherwise you just go insane. I don't want to become stale. I want to be creative.