A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line.

The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find.

In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.

I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns.

I tend to be pessimistic. I want to believe in hope.