You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

To her Cheshire smile, I'll stand on file, she's all I ever wanted. But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts.

If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.

It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear

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

I always look terrible before the show. That's when I feel worst. And after the show it's like a million bucks. Simple as that. You feel a little tired but you never feel better. Nothing makes me feel as good as those hours between when you walk offstage, until I go to bed. That's the hours that I live for.

The question of whether we were misled into the war in Iraq isn't a liberal or conservative or Republican or Democratic question, it's an American one. Protecting the democracy that we ask our sons and daughters to die for is our responsibility and our trust. Demanding accountability from our leaders is our job as citizens. It's the American way. So may the truth win out.