All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling.

You know, my music utilizes things from the past, because that's what the past is for. It's to learn from. It's not to limit you, you shouldn't be limited by it.

Now everyone dreams of a love faithful and true, But you and I know what this world can do. So let's make our steps clear so the other may see. And I'll wait for you...should I fall behind wait for me.

I think you can't demonize somebody that's on the other side of the political spectrum, or you can't generalize about them.

They say "ya gotta stay hungry"... Hey Baby...I'm just about starvin' tonight!

You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.

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.