That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime.

Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.

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.

It's time to impeach the president and get a man in there to get us out of this mess.

I met a girl and we ran away, I swore I'd make her happy every day. And how I made her cry, two faces have I.

The name 'Boss' started with people that worked for me... It was not meant like Boss, capital B, it was meant like 'Boss, where's my dough this week?' And it was sort of just a term among friends. I never really liked it.

I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].