I can get onstage and cut that off and be superinstinctive. To be a good live performer, you have to be instinctive. It's like, to walk in the jungle, or to do anything where there's a certain tightrope wire aspect you need to be instinctive. And you have to be comfortable at it also.

Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.

The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.

It doesn't matter what happened last night or the night - or tomorrow night. It's all about what you're doing with this audience right now.