Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair. The night's busted open. These two lanes will take us anywhere.

I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style and a story to tell.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

I never start with a political point of view. I believe that your politics are emotionally and psychologically determined by your early experiences.

Because we lived in the presence of the church and the convent and the rectory and the school 24-7. And this was an enormous cornerstone in the lives of my entire family. They were all pretty serious Catholic churchgoers.

Show a little faith there is magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright, and that's alright with me.

T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy.