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.

I heard a political message in rock music. A liberation message. A message of freedom. I heard it in Elvis' voice.

There's a girl across the bar, I get the message she's sending. Mmm, she ain't looking too married, and me, well, I'm pretending.

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.

I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.

Most of these - most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography.

I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate.