All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

Jack the Rabbit and Weak Knee Willie, you know they're gonna be there. Sloppy Sue and Big Bones Billy, they'll be coming up for air.

Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us apart.

I guess there's just a meanness in this world

What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?

After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.

All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.