Blood moon risin' in a sky of black dust, tell me baby, who do you trust?.

It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear.

I believe when your children are born that you are reborn in some fashion..

Is there anybody alive out there?.

When you have three teenagers, it gives a whole new meaning to "homeland security.".

When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened..

And at the time, for one of the few times in my life I didn't have a band, I just had myself and the guitar, so I was going to have to do something w….

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..

Deindustrialization that I have written about for 40 years left a good part of the American public behind..

Well now I'm no hero, that's understood. All the redemption I can offer girl, is beneath this dirty hood. With a chance to make it good somehow, hey ….

I tend to be not my own best company. I can get a little lost when - if I don't have my work to occasionally focus me..

Show a little faith, there's magic in the night..

I had tried to go to college, and I didn't really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people gave me a lot of trouble, and I was houn….

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition..

I studied other singers, so I would learn how to phrase, and learn how to breathe. And the main thing was, I learned how to inhabit my song..

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..

An unfulfilled life makes a hard man..

I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my per….

If you have written really well, people will swear that it happened to you..

The moment you begin to depend on audience reaction, you're doing the wrong thing. You're doin' it wrong, it's a mistake, it's not right. You can't a….

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I….