I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I.

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.

Judge said, what you got in your defense son? Fifty-seven channels and nothing on.

The Catholic religion at the time was much darker and more mysterious. The entire mass was in Latin. The church was - if you go to my church now, it's incredibly bright inside. But at - when I was young, it was very dark inside. And it was just the difference in the way that they've painted it since I've gone there. And it strives for a very different and welcoming spirit.

Out of our way mister, you best keep.