The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

Nothing matters in the whole wide world when you're in love with a Jersey girl.

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

I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.

An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.

A great rock band searches for the same kind of combustible force that fueled the expansion of the universe after the big bang. You want the earth to shake and spit fire. You want the sky to split apart and for God to pour out.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.