In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.

Music doesn't tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That's what it told me.

All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling.

Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.

Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty. And meet me tonight in Atlantic City

The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin' all the time, always playin' the clown.

[The Catholic religion] was something I carried with me, never forgot, brought into my music. And it's been in my music ever since.