All my friends are so small town.

You can't tell your best buddy that you love him.

Give me someone I can look up to, show me someone I can love.

For me or a Bruce Springsteen to sit up in our ivory towers and make comments about racism, well, were not really in it, are we?

With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied.

Back in the '80s and '90s, when there was still a record business, there was pressure on anyone who was fortunate to have a few hits on a major label to continue that success.

My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.