I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.

Unions have been the only powerful and effective voice working people have ever had in the history of this country.

Every song has a piece of you in it, because just general regret, love. You have to basically zero in on the truth of those particular emotions.

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.

Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in that she was transient also. She worked busking on the streets in New York. She waitressed. She had - she just lived a life - she lived a musician's life. She lived an artist's life. So we were both people who were very uncomfortable in a domestic setting, getting together and trying to build one and seeing if our particularly strange jigsaw puzzle pieces were going to fit together in a way that was going to create something different for the two of us. And it did.

Every rock song is some variation of 'Pull down your pants'