Deindustrialization that I have written about for 40 years left a good part of the American public behind.

Music doesn't tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That's what it told me.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Two hearts are better than one.

I tend to be not my own best company. I can get a little lost when - if I don't have my work to occasionally focus me.

It's hard to be a saint in the city.

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.