You like to think that it's something you created, but secretly you know that you had some kind of help, or somebody gave this to you.

Very often the music comes first.

I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that reflect my real feelings about things and so that what I've been writing about.

When I first started, I worked with three chords in every bar, but I found that tied me down - I'm not a chord-change writer, I'm a songwriter.

He aint heavy, he's my brother.

I got worries by the ton, getting cancer's only one. Over taxed and alimonied, tired of eating fried baloney.

I used to go to my kids' soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn't screaming, because I'd have to do a show that night. It was hard. Moms and dads get more emotional at those soccer and Little League games than at a professional game.