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

When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.

I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.

I was looking for some way to put my music to some service on a nightly basis. You go into a town, you play a little music, you leave something behind. That idea connected us to the local community. It was a very simple idea, but it really resonated with me.

The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find.

Because we lived in the presence of the church and the convent and the rectory and the school 24-7. And this was an enormous cornerstone in the lives of my entire family. They were all pretty serious Catholic churchgoers.

My heart's dark, but it's rising. I'm pulling all the faith I can see.