A great singer has to learn how to inhabit a song.

I got a house full of Rembrandts and priceless art, and all the little girls they wanna tear me apart.

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is.

Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair. The night's busted open. These two lanes will take us anywhere.

I'm just tired and bored with myself.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.