I had tried to go to college, and I didn't really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people gave me a lot of trouble, and I was hounded off the campus - I just looked different and acted different, so I left school.

I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz between what's flesh and what's fantasy.