On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.

It took quite a bit of work and time and mistakes to begin to feel - to understand the strength that comes along with building a home life.That was very mysterious to me. I was very skeptical of it for a long time, and didn't understand it fully until Patti [ Scialfa] and I got together.

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

There's a girl across the bar, I get the message she's sending. Mmm, she ain't looking too married, and me, well, I'm pretending.

Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.