Let's raise our glass and let the hammer fly, yeah, this is the long good-bye.

There's a girl across the bar, I get the message she's sending. Mmm, she ain't looking too married, and me, well, I'm pretending.

If you don't connect yourself to your family and to the world in some fashion, through your job or whatever it is you do, you feel like you're disappearing, you feel like you're fading away, you know? I felt like that for a very very long time. Growing up, I felt like that a lot. I was just invisible; an invisible person. I think that feeling, wherever it appears, and I grew up around people who felt that way, it's an enormous source of pain; the struggle to make yourself felt and visible. To have some impact, and to create meaning for yourself, and for the people you come in touch with.

I think 1960s small-town America was very Lynchian. Everything was there, but underneath, everything was rumbling.

An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

Badlands, you got to live it everyday, let the broken hearts stand as the price you've got to pay.