I'm the kind of person, I think a lot about everything. Nothin' I can do about it. It's like, I'm a thinkin' fool. That's a big part of me.

Unions have been the only powerful and effective voice working people have ever had in the history of this country.

It took quite a bit of work and time and mistakes to begin to feel - to understand the strength that comes along with building a home life.That was very mysterious to me. I was very skeptical of it for a long time, and didn't understand it fully until Patti [ Scialfa] and I got together.

T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy.

I had spent about three months where I couldn't sing at all, so that was anxiety-provoking. But after that, I went back out. I sang for two hours in my garage one day to see if I had a voice.

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.