Unions have been the only powerful and effective voice working people have ever had in the history of this country.

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.

You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.

I think when you're a child, you just cling to the basics, which is the basic story of Jesus and the crucifixion and hell and eternal punishment and the flames. This was all stuff that was - forget when you're young.

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

I want a thousand guitars . . .

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.