Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now.

Badlands, you got to live it everyday, let the broken hearts stand as the price you've got to pay.

Everybody's got a hungry heart.

I have been on stage on a few occasions where I felt I couldn't escape the interior of my - my interior thoughts. But Peter Wolf once said, what's the strangest thing you can do on stage? Think about what you're doing.

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.

The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.