You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above

Rise above yourself.

Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

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.