You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you.

If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed.

Fortunately, I've never had a job

I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em.

Who keeps on loving you when you've been lying, saying things that ain't what they seem? God does, but I don't. God will, but I won't.

I am limited by what I can think of to do-my choices are not so great.

The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If youre not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, youre kind of stuck.