We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.

Now everyone dreams of a love faithful and true, But you and I know what this world can do. So let's make our steps clear so the other may see. And I'll wait for you...should I fall behind wait for me.

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

Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.