The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.

You weren't supposed to hear Elvis Presley. You weren't supposed to hear Jerry Lee Lewis. You weren't supposed to hear Robert Johnson. You weren't supposed to hear Hank Williams. And they told the story of the secret America.

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.

Fame, on its best day, is kind of like a friendly wave from a stranger by the side of the road. And when it's not so good, it's like a long walk home, all alone, with nobody in when you get there.

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.

I had no credit cards. I had no checks. I was cash only until I was probably 30 years old.

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