I always look terrible before the show. That's when I feel worst. And after the show it's like a million bucks. Simple as that. You feel a little tired but you never feel better. Nothing makes me feel as good as those hours between when you walk offstage, until I go to bed. That's the hours that I live for.

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy.I want to be that guy myself very often.

Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now.