Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.

What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?

Use it, Rosie, that's what it's there for.

I tend to be not my own best company. I can get a little lost when - if I don't have my work to occasionally focus me.

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

You've always got to remember, rock and roll's never been about giving up. For me, for a lot of kids, it was a totally positive force... not optimistic all the time, but positive. It was never--never--a bout surrender.

It took quite a bit of work and time and mistakes to begin to feel - to understand the strength that comes along with building a home life.That was very mysterious to me. I was very skeptical of it for a long time, and didn't understand it fully until Patti [ Scialfa] and I got together.