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

I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.

My soul is lost, my friend, tell me how do I begin again? My city's in ruins, my city's in ruins.

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.

The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.