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.

The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe.

You can revisit - the wonderful thing about my job is you can revisit your 22-year-old self or your 24-year-old self any particular night you want. The songs pick up some extra resonance, I hope, but they're still - they're there, and I can revisit that period of my life when I choose. So it's quite a nice experience.

Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.

The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.

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

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