Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

My dad was young. He went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. That didn't seem to be in the nature of - in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really. They were - we had a cousin that went to - off to Brown University. It was like a nuclear explosion took place.

When you have three teenagers, it gives a whole new meaning to "homeland security."

We're gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it's gonna be alright.

I have been on stage on a few occasions where I felt I couldn't escape the interior of my - my interior thoughts. But Peter Wolf once said, what's the strangest thing you can do on stage? Think about what you're doing.

Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.