Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz between what's flesh and what's fantasy.

I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie.

An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.

I think you can't demonize somebody that's on the other side of the political spectrum, or you can't generalize about them.

The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.

Most of the artists I know are crazy in one way or another. I think that's why you get into it. You're in pursuit of a certain sort of peace that's very, very, very difficult to come by.

I tend to be pessimistic. I want to believe in hope.