There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.

You can't shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains.

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.

You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.

For the ones who had a notion, A notion deep inside, That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive I wanna find one face that ain't looking through me I wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these badlands

You're young and you're always in pursuit your young manhood. You're trying to figure out - what does that mean? What does - you know, there's a lot of pressure on young men to sort that out. And, you know, we tend to gravitate towards one-dimensional iconography as far as what it means to be a fully grown man. And you can get lost in so much of it out there.

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.