An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it's something that you fight for.

I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.

You may not be able to hit all the notes. That's OK. You may not have the clearest tone. You may not have the greatest range. But if you can inhabit your song, you can communicate.

Everybody's got a hungry heart.

All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

I've found that giving 100% to your job isn't the same as giving 100% of your life to your job. Very often when I thought I was giving 100% of my life to my job, I was simply obsessing over something.

The only thing I know as I get older is that I don't really need to be No. 1.