When you're a kid and you're trying to find your own voice, it's rather daunting to hear somebody like Howlin' Wolf, because you know that you'll never achieve that.

It's a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal.

I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.

She's a shiksa goddess and a trapeze artist, all of that. She can fix the truck...she's outta this world...she's bold, inventive and fearless. That's who you wanna go in the woods with, right? Somebody who finishes your sentences for you.

I don't really like listening to the radio so much.

when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans

You know when you throw a party, you think people will show up and no one will like each other. It's like that with music - parts of your musical psyche have never met other parts. You wonder if you should get them together.