We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves.

A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.

Am I self-righteous? Why not? It's not like I can count on you to be righteous for me.

I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.

If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect.

As performers grow older, I reckon there are two ways they can go. They can either be up there, playing more deeply from their guts than ever, or they can be phoning it in so crassly that it leaves a lump in your throat as you leave the venue at the end of the show.

I like the idea of going out with a woman and not doing anything, and just eating dinner and talking, and that's cool, too. So, someone might look at me and say, "No way, man. He's just banging strippers." And I do that, but not all the time.