Everybody's got a hungry heart.

The book was just something that came along after we played the Super Bowl and I wrote a little essay that went online. Then I had two or three weeks and I said, wow, that essay was pretty good. Maybe I'll try and write some other stuff. Writing about the depression, I just felt - you know, when you write a book like this, you have to open up your life. You have to be willing to do so to a certain degree.

On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.

I heard a political message in rock music. A liberation message. A message of freedom. I heard it in Elvis' voice.

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

The things that I loved about Bob's [Dylan] music - and I describe him in the book as the father of my country, which he really is - were things that just didn't fit when I went to do my job. You know, I'd come out of a somewhat different circumstance and shoes - the clothes just didn't fit.

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.