Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

I couldn't worry about whether I`m gonna make it onstage or not. You can't. You just gotta do it. And if you do, you do, and if you don't, you don't, and then something else happens. That's the point of the live performance.

The moment you begin to depend on audience reaction, you're doing the wrong thing. You're doin' it wrong, it's a mistake, it's not right. You can't allow yourself, no matter what, to depend on them.

It's time to impeach the president and get a man in there to get us out of this mess.

All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

Most artists I know consider themselves to be phonies, along with the feeling that there's something that you're doing is essential, essential to communicate, and deeply, deeply real.

I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.