Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

Nothing is wrong with the past: it happened with its own timing, with its own reason and produced the right result. Love it, be grateful with it, embrace it.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.