The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.

An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it's something that you fight for.

I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style and a story to tell.

For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.

Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk.

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

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.