Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.

'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.

Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.

The only thing I know as I get older is that I don't really need to be No. 1.

For me, once I count the band in, and I delve deep into my song, I feel a certain sort of integrity and integration that I rarely find in my daily life.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers.

An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.