I had no credit cards. I had no checks. I was cash only until I was probably 30 years old.

The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul.

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

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?

If you don't connect yourself to your family and to the world in some fashion, through your job or whatever it is you do, you feel like you're disappearing, you feel like you're fading away, you know? I felt like that for a very very long time. Growing up, I felt like that a lot. I was just invisible; an invisible person. I think that feeling, wherever it appears, and I grew up around people who felt that way, it's an enormous source of pain; the struggle to make yourself felt and visible. To have some impact, and to create meaning for yourself, and for the people you come in touch with.

Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.