They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man.

I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band.

Every song has a piece of you in it, because just general regret, love. You have to basically zero in on the truth of those particular emotions.

Politics and life go hand in hand.

When I got into "Anna Karenina" and "Brothers Karamazov" and "Crime and Punishment," that was the stuff that - that had a big effect on me, because it was so psychological.

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.

In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.