I keep a steady supply of paintbrushes and canvases. I like to paint. I'm not some great artist.
The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'
I have been very blessed with some great songs.
WCW had its moment, and that's what it was: it was a moment. And we created some great stories and changed the industry to a large degree.
I have some great stories. But I am also very human, and I suffered an awful lot.
A lot of charities spend a million dollars on a fundraiser to make $15,000. It's a social swirl. They do some great stuff and then - it's called mission drift. It becomes more about the parties.
Drew Bledsoe is a great talent. He had some fantastic years early in his career.
Every great team has had to fail at some point in order to be successful.
I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.
The greatest hits in some weird way marks the end of something.
Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.
Writing 'Schottenfreude' has reinforced the fact that there are few, if any, emotions that have not been experienced, and analyzed, by some of the world's greatest writers.
For lunch, I aim for a lean protein, some starch, and leafy greens, which are full of magnesium.
It's that kind of Dublin mentality: you just have to grin and bear some things.
I would love to be a grinder on some race yacht.
Touring itself - and I was very young, and a lot of it I did by myself - it's lonely, but it does give you some kind of spine, I think. It does give you some kind of grit.
I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.
At the time, I was living pretty close to Ground Zero. I had to grab some necessary equipment, put it in my backpack, and flee the immediate proximity on my bike.
Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town.
