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.

I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.

Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all.

People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy.I want to be that guy myself very often.

My soul is lost, my friend, tell me how do I begin again? My city's in ruins, my city's in ruins.

T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy.

You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real.