You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

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.

You can't start a fire Worrying 'bout your little world falling apart This gun's for hire Even if we're just dancing in the dark

Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?

I never start with a political point of view. I believe that your politics are emotionally and psychologically determined by your early experiences.

Because we lived in the presence of the church and the convent and the rectory and the school 24-7. And this was an enormous cornerstone in the lives of my entire family. They were all pretty serious Catholic churchgoers.