You can't shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

I believe when your children are born that you are reborn in some fashion.

The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.

[The Catholic religion] was something I carried with me, never forgot, brought into my music. And it's been in my music ever since.

I think you can't demonize somebody that's on the other side of the political spectrum, or you can't generalize about them.

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.