"Born To Run," that expands every time we go out. It just seems to you - more of your life fills it in, fills in the story. And when we hit it every night, it's always a huge catharsis. It's fascinating to see the audience singing it back to me. It's quite wonderful, you know, to see people that intensely singing your song.

Out of our way mister, you best keep.

Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun. Oh, but mama, that's where the fun is.

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?

In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.

Someday girl, I don't know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.