I took a month long vacation in the stratosphere, and you know it's very hard to hold your breath.

She's a walkin', talkin' reason to live.

Deindustrialization that I have written about for 40 years left a good part of the American public behind.

If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.

You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real.

What you were singing about was believable and convincing, that's the key to a great singer.

Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in that she was transient also. She worked busking on the streets in New York. She waitressed. She had - she just lived a life - she lived a musician's life. She lived an artist's life. So we were both people who were very uncomfortable in a domestic setting, getting together and trying to build one and seeing if our particularly strange jigsaw puzzle pieces were going to fit together in a way that was going to create something different for the two of us. And it did.