When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.

Somehow all you ever need's never really quite enough.

Don't run back inside, darlin', you know just what I'm here for. So you're scared and you're thinkin' we ain't that young any more...Show a little faith! There's magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey, you're all right.

The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.

From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed off .410 on my lap, through the Badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path.

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.

More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.