Let there be sunshine, let there be rain, let the broken hearted love again.

You're young and you're always in pursuit your young manhood. You're trying to figure out - what does that mean? What does - you know, there's a lot of pressure on young men to sort that out. And, you know, we tend to gravitate towards one-dimensional iconography as far as what it means to be a fully grown man. And you can get lost in so much of it out there.

The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe.

I don't know many artists who are not crazy.

The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know.

'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.

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.