It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people.

If you have written really well, people will swear that it happened to you.

I think that it's a natural thing for parents to look for reflections of themselves in their children and feel a certain pride there. So if your child is very, very different, or perhaps if he's very, very similar, it makes you uncomfortable.

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.

No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.

You weren't supposed to hear Elvis Presley. You weren't supposed to hear Jerry Lee Lewis. You weren't supposed to hear Robert Johnson. You weren't supposed to hear Hank Williams. And they told the story of the secret America.