Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty. And meet me tonight in Atlantic City

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

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in school. So we try to lay on a bit of that, through being funny, being serious, playing hard.

The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.

You still had to find the music inside your language. You know, it was - that's a big part of what sort of moved me to begin writing the book. I wrote a little essay and I felt, yeah, this is a good voice. This is a good feeling. It feels like me.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.