I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I.

The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

The future is now. Roll up your sleeves and let your passion flow. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

And at the time, for one of the few times in my life I didn't have a band, I just had myself and the guitar, so I was going to have to do something with just my voice, just the guitar and just my songs that was going to move someone enough to give me a shot. So I wrote songs that were very lyrically alive and lyrically dense. And they were unique, but it really came out of the motivation to - or I understood it was - I was going to have to make my mark that way.

You can beat on your chest, hell, any monkey can.

Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud.