I think you can't demonize somebody that's on the other side of the political spectrum, or you can't generalize about them.

If I have a song that I feel is really one of my best songs, I like it to have a formal studio recording because I believe that something being officially released on a studio record gives it a certain authority that it doesn't quite have if it comes out on a live album or is just a part of your show, you know.

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.

When you`re onstage you have a certain faith that somebody's gonna yell somethin' back. Some nights it's louder than other nights and some nights they do, and on some songs they don't. But that's the idea. I think when you begin to expect a reaction from an audience, it's a mistake.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.

I guess there's just a meanness in this world