I would rather feel the hurt inside, yes I would darling, than know the emptiness that your heart must hide.

Deindustrialization that I have written about for 40 years left a good part of the American public behind.

Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.

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.

I think politics come out of psychology.

There's people that get a chance to do the kind of work that changes the world, and make things really different. And there's the kind that just keeps the world from falling apart.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.