Well now I'm no hero, that's understood. All the redemption I can offer girl, is beneath this dirty hood. With a chance to make it good somehow, hey what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair. Well the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere. We got one last chance to make it real.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.

The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.

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

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

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.