The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.

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.

Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.

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.

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.