I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.

This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.

I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know.

A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.

The writing of the record didn't take long, because I just have a huge stack of papers and I just pluck from the stack. It took a long time because it's very expensive to make records; in fact, I think it's a complete rip-off.

As long as there are a few people there, I can lose myself, which is the ultimate goal. And that's happening more and more; the non-musical world is becoming less and less interesting to me.

It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.