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.

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

I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.

God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.

I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.

Small unit democracy, I found early on, didn't work for me.