I never start with a political point of view. I believe that your politics are emotionally and psychologically determined by your early experiences.

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

I didn't have a blueprint from my childhood that I could call on, which is an enormous deficit when you're trying to put together a family life. I didn't see a family life where men were thriving inside of it. You know, my dad tended to blame the family for his inability to achieve what he wanted to achieve, you know? So, unfortunately, I was coming from that particular frame of mind.

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.

I couldn't worry about whether I`m gonna make it onstage or not. You can't. You just gotta do it. And if you do, you do, and if you don't, you don't, and then something else happens. That's the point of the live performance.

You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.