“We’ve always been trying to climb this ladder that leans so hard on our own idea of what our big songs are. We realized recently that we’re not a band with big songs.”

There’s political content in almost every song we’ve ever written on some level. It colors everything.

Everybody knows we’re big liberals and I was a very outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter, and I still am. It’s impossible for us to separate the songs we’re writing from what’s going on in the world.

Writing lyrics with your wife does lead to talking about yourselves a lot. But this is not an autobiographical account of my personal marriage. It’s almost about the marriage of the band.

I was – my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.

My opening acts are always really strong because I need a guy who can take on a big, big crowd. Which is not that easy to do.

The first thing I remember is that my dad had a big iron Olivetti typewriter and he worked all night.

My cousin’s gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it’s being true to their nature… that’s what takes a long time to learn.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.

Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship – and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that.