You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.

In a restless heart the seed of betrayal lay.

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.

Settle back is to settle without knowing.

Every rock song is some variation of 'Pull down your pants'

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.