Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only.

Jack the Rabbit and Weak Knee Willie, you know they're gonna be there. Sloppy Sue and Big Bones Billy, they'll be coming up for air.

They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man.

I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie.

Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.

I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is.

I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.