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.

She's a walkin', talkin' reason to live.

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

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"Born To Run," that expands every time we go out. It just seems to you - more of your life fills it in, fills in the story. And when we hit it every night, it's always a huge catharsis. It's fascinating to see the audience singing it back to me. It's quite wonderful, you know, to see people that intensely singing your song.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.