So we raise her up every morning, we take her down every night, we don't let her touch the ground and we fold her up right. On second thought, I do like to brag 'cause I'm mighty proud of the Ragged Old Flag.

He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.

They're powerful, those songs. At times they've been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.

We [with Rick Rubin] would focus on the ones that we did like, that felt right and sounded right. And if I didn't like the performance on that song, I would keep trying it and do take after take until it felt comfortable with me and felt that it was coming out of me and my guitar and my voice as one, that it was right for my soul.

I could wrap myself in the warm cocoon of a song and go anywhere.

The more I learn, the more excited I get.

I'm so uncomfortable wearing colors in public. I really am. Even denim. If I've got a day off in a town, I want to go out for a walk I'll put on denim. But almost everything I've got the black on.