The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

The future is now. Roll up your sleeves and let your passion flow. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out. Then I go perform and I play it and I get this immediate feedback from the audience. So that's been the pattern of my life.

I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.

I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car.

I guess there's just a meanness in this world

All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records but if you were a kid you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn't always say - you wouldn't dare say it was beautiful.