So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?

Sometimes, at night you could hear the whole damn city crying.

The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.

I looked at myself, and I just said, well, you know, I can sing but I'm not the greatest singer in the world. I can play guitar very well, but I'm not the greatest guitar player in the world... And so I said, well, if I'm going to project an individuality, it's going to have to be in my writing.

I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.

I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.