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.

Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet.

I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie.

So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.

I think 1960s small-town America was very Lynchian. Everything was there, but underneath, everything was rumbling.

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.