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

Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.

I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.

When you`re onstage you have a certain faith that somebody's gonna yell somethin' back. Some nights it's louder than other nights and some nights they do, and on some songs they don't. But that's the idea. I think when you begin to expect a reaction from an audience, it's a mistake.

What you were singing about was believable and convincing, that's the key to a great singer.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.