When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac.

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.

Somewhere along the way, the idea, which I think was initially to get some fair transaction between people, went out the window. And what came in was, the most you can get and the least you can give. That's why cars are the way they are nowadays. It's just an erosion of all the things that were true and right about the original idea.

Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair. The night's busted open. These two lanes will take us anywhere.

No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.

Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty. And meet me tonight in Atlantic City

The book was just something that came along after we played the Super Bowl and I wrote a little essay that went online. Then I had two or three weeks and I said, wow, that essay was pretty good. Maybe I'll try and write some other stuff. Writing about the depression, I just felt - you know, when you write a book like this, you have to open up your life. You have to be willing to do so to a certain degree.