With a chance to make it good somehow, hey, what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair.

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.

I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist.

We live in a post-authentic world, and today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It's all just what you're bringing when the lights go down. It's your teachers, your influences, and your personal history. At the end of the day, it's the power and purpose of your music that still matters.

It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear

Judge said, what you got in your defense son? Fifty-seven channels and nothing on.

I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].