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.
I don’t write demographically. I don’t write a song to reach these people or those people.
On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.
My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I’ve always felt like I’m seeking his revenge.
Every rock song is some variation of ‘Pull down your pants’
I always felt that the musician’s job was to provide an alternative source of information.
The only thing I know as I get older is that I don’t really need to be No. 1.
I never start with a political point of view. I believe that your politics are emotionally and psychologically determined by your early experiences.
Elvis is my religion. But for him, I’d be selling encyclopedias right now.