Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.
With a chance to make it good somehow, hey, what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair.
I’ve found that giving 100% to your job isn’t the same as giving 100% of your life to your job. Very often when I thought I was giving 100% of my life to my job, I was simply obsessing over something.
It’s hard to be a saint in the city.
I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I’d still come home at night and write songs.
You have moments of clarity, things become clear to you that you didn’t understand before. But there’s never any making ends meet or finding any time of longstanding peace of mind about something.
I’m interested in what it means to be an American. I’m interested in what it means to live in America. I’m interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I’m interested in trying to define what that country is.
The future is now. Roll up your sleeves and let your passion flow. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.
I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.
I tend to be pessimistic. I want to believe in hope.
We all have stories we’re living and telling ourselves.
The marriage-equality issue should be recognized for what it truly is – a civil rights issue that must be approved to assure that every citizen is treated equally under the law.
Unions have been the only powerful and effective voice working people have ever had in the history of this country.
Music doesn’t tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That’s what it told me.
You can’t have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can’t get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.
Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don’t have answers.
When I first started in rock, I had a big guy’s audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid ’80s.
I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate.
When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened.
On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.