Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the solos. Steve has always been a fabulous guitarist. Back from the day when we were both teenagers together, he led his band and played lead and was always a hot guitar player.

I studied other singers, so I would learn how to phrase, and learn how to breathe. And the main thing was, I learned how to inhabit my song.

It's time to impeach the president and get a man in there to get us out of this mess.

Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.

We live in a post-authentic world, and today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It's all just what you're bringing when the lights go down. It's your teachers, your influences, and your personal history. At the end of the day, it's the power and purpose of your music that still matters.

I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.

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