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

I think when you're a child, you just cling to the basics, which is the basic story of Jesus and the crucifixion and hell and eternal punishment and the flames. This was all stuff that was - forget when you're young.

You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

I cut my bow from the wood of this tree of evil. Of this tree of good, I want a kiss from your lips.

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've always got to remember, rock and roll's never been about giving up. For me, for a lot of kids, it was a totally positive force... not optimistic all the time, but positive. It was never--never--a bout surrender.