I'm laughing at you, you're laughing at me.

But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.

Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the solos. Steve has always been a fabulous guitarist. Back from the day when we were both teenagers together, he led his band and played lead and was always a hot guitar player.

I tend to be pessimistic. I want to believe in hope.

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.

All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

Deindustrialization that I have written about for 40 years left a good part of the American public behind.