Jeff Buckley on Knowledge

"It was the kind of collaboration I dream about, actually. His voice sounded, you know, like an angel. Like a gift from God."

"I'm just, you know, I'm constantly surprised that so many people do not know about him, still, and at the same time, there's something very, very beautiful about that. It just keeps slowly kind of building, expanding..."

"I saw my favorite bands, Rage Against the Machine, ten years ago also, Jeff Buckley, in '94, so as well I learned a lot about music through coming to this festival, so it means lot to me taking chance to headlining here."

"People my age all flocked to see Jeff, you know. Because we were so, just to hear that voice again. He would have been so pissed off with it by now. All these old toothless hags hanging around the stage door, you know. He was just shit hot, I gotta say."

"and and, all dark, all romantic. When I say "romantic," I mean a sensibility that sees everything, and has to express everything, and still doesn't know what the fuck it is, it hurts that bad. It just madly tries to speak whatever it feels, and that can mean vast things. That sort of mentality can turn a sun-kissed orange into a flaming meteorite, and make it sound like that in a song."

"Interviewer: You kind of do a farewell, I guess, to Jeff Buckley at the end of some of your recent shows. I know you guys recorded the same song, at one time ― and we're going to play Hallelujah in just a minute ― but you could talk a little bit about him? Who wants to talk about Jeff Buckley?"

"Yeah, I found him because, it was actually my wife had him ― had the disc, had him ― she wishes...had the disc, and it came on one night, and you hear that opening tune of Mojo Pin ― it's that real soft, that haunting thing off in the distance ― and I remember asking, "what is that?" She says, "that's Jeff Buckley." Where have I been? Do I know nothing? And since then it's just been a bit of an obsession, I guess."