We live in a post-authentic world, and today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It's all just what you're bringing when the lights go down. It's your teachers, your influences, and your personal history. At the end of the day, it's the power and purpose of your music that still matters.

You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.

The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find.

Most of these - most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography.

'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.

You can't kill your way to security and you can't lead by scaring people.

Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?