Having a child at 55... that's optimism.

I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.

Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.

I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.

Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.