The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.

The marriage-equality issue should be recognized for what it truly is - a civil rights issue that must be approved to assure that every citizen is treated equally under the law.

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

The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.

Tonight I'm stepping lightly and I'm feeling no pain.

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.

What you were singing about was believable and convincing, that's the key to a great singer.