Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it sorta surprises you.

Out of our way mister, you best keep.

I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information.

Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in that she was transient also. She worked busking on the streets in New York. She waitressed. She had - she just lived a life - she lived a musician's life. She lived an artist's life. So we were both people who were very uncomfortable in a domestic setting, getting together and trying to build one and seeing if our particularly strange jigsaw puzzle pieces were going to fit together in a way that was going to create something different for the two of us. And it did.

You use to drive me wild, but lately you get your kicks from just knocking me down, down, down.

If you have written really well, people will swear that it happened to you.

Now everyone dreams of a love faithful and true, But you and I know what this world can do. So let's make our steps clear so the other may see. And I'll wait for you...should I fall behind wait for me.