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.

If I have a song that I feel is really one of my best songs, I like it to have a formal studio recording because I believe that something being officially released on a studio record gives it a certain authority that it doesn't quite have if it comes out on a live album or is just a part of your show, you know.

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

Unions have been the only powerful and effective voice working people have ever had in the history of this country.

Think of it this way: performing is like sprinting while screaming for three, four minutes. And then you do it again. And then you do it again. And then you walk a little, shouting the whole time. And so on. Your adrenaline quickly overwhelms your conditioning.

The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.

If you see me performing, you're going, that guy is simply the most extroverted guy I've ever seen. But if you've seen me very often on a daily basis and all the while growing up, I was very, very introverted. Very introverted. So I have sort of the extremes of both of those characteristics.