My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs.
A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.
I was a drummer and I played the guitar.
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
I can play the air guitar really, really well.
A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.
I went to sleep away camp seven years in a row. I was such a pro.
I'm not a big disco guy.
White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.
I don't use labels a lot.
I began playing in the senior circuit when I was 15 and won the world senior amateur title the same year.
I have to thank country radio for believing in me.
Cheyenne Jackson is just a dream.
Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.
In 2012 there was a megafoolish, if well-funded, effort by a group called Americans Elect to raise an independent Cincinnatus to run for president via an Internet draft. It flopped, spectacularly.
America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
Tradition is a very powerful force.
We worked as a team... I was one of the band.
