You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

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

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

It's hard to be a saint in the city.

I think when you're a child, you just cling to the basics, which is the basic story of Jesus and the crucifixion and hell and eternal punishment and the flames. This was all stuff that was - forget when you're young.