The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe.

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

Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.

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

With a chance to make it good somehow, hey, what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.