Say a prayer for the pretender, who started out so young and strong only to surrender.

I was doing my best Bogart, but I was having trouble getting into her jeans.

People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.

Self-discovery in songwriting, bringing something forth that's instructive to yourself - some of the best songs that you will ever write are the ones where you didn't have to think about any of that stuff, but nonetheless that's what's happening in the song.

Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels. Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields.

My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.