It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy.I want to be that guy myself very often.

Badlands, you got to live it everyday, let the broken hearts stand as the price you've got to pay.

Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.

Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it sorta surprises you.

When I got into "Anna Karenina" and "Brothers Karamazov" and "Crime and Punishment," that was the stuff that - that had a big effect on me, because it was so psychological.

T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy.