I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

When you`re onstage you have a certain faith that somebody's gonna yell somethin' back. Some nights it's louder than other nights and some nights they do, and on some songs they don't. But that's the idea. I think when you begin to expect a reaction from an audience, it's a mistake.

That Elvis, man, he is all there is. There ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with him. He wrote the book. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now. There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information.

I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.

So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?