You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.

When you make a record, your own record, and you don't even recognize it yourself, it's hard to think if anybody else is going to recognize.

making a noise in this world making a noise in this world you can bet your ass, I won't go quietly making a noise in this world.

Lord please save his soul, he was the king of rock and roll.

It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. ... Make up new names for them. Instead of a bridge, you can call it a highway, or an overpass. ... Music should never be harmless. ... I remember from my earliest years, people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences in a way that was different in Indian country than it was other places. And I was really struck by this and obviously very affected by it, because it's always come out in my songs.

Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.

I don't believe it's all for nothing. It's not just written in the sand.