You're young and you're always in pursuit your young manhood. You're trying to figure out - what does that mean? What does - you know, there's a lot of pressure on young men to sort that out. And, you know, we tend to gravitate towards one-dimensional iconography as far as what it means to be a fully grown man. And you can get lost in so much of it out there.

Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.

I guess there's just a meanness in this world

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin.