I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life outside its social context. I don't believe that you can tell people anything; you can only draw them in.

But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.

The moment you begin to depend on audience reaction, you're doing the wrong thing. You're doin' it wrong, it's a mistake, it's not right. You can't allow yourself, no matter what, to depend on them.

If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.

My soul is lost, my friend, tell me how do I begin again? My city's in ruins, my city's in ruins.

It doesn't matter what happened last night or the night - or tomorrow night. It's all about what you're doing with this audience right now.

Unions have been the only powerful and effective voice working people have ever had in the history of this country.