We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.

I've always loved the fact that Bob's [Dylan] been able to sustain his mystery over 50 or 60 years.

So I bought a forty-four magnum, it was solid steel cast, and in the blessed name of Elvis, well I just let it blast 'til my TV lay in pieces.

I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in school. So we try to lay on a bit of that, through being funny, being serious, playing hard.

My soul is lost, my friend, tell me how do I begin again? My city's in ruins, my city's in ruins.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.