Music doesn't tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That's what it told me.

You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer praying in vain, for a savior to rise from these streets.

On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.

Badlands, you got to live it everyday, let the broken hearts stand as the price you've got to pay.

So I bought a forty-four magnum, it was solid steel cast, and in the blessed name of Elvis, well I just let it blast 'til my TV lay in pieces.

Together, we'll live with the sadness. I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.