I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out. Then I go perform and I play it and I get this immediate feedback from the audience. So that's been the pattern of my life.

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.

They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy.I want to be that guy myself very often.

Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.