I know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands, Say, This has nothing to do with me, I just want to live as comfortably as I can...

And I was shocked, To see the mistakes of each generation, Will just fade like a radio station, If you drive out of range...

If you think you know what I'm doing wrong well you're gonna have to get in line.

fate is not just whose cooking smells good, but which way the wind blows

My political mission is as acute as ever. For me, in addition to kind of looking at the world and trying to engage in my society politically, having the kid around sort of makes me check in with myself. I think you're all busy trying to fix the world, but what about yourself?

What I like about being independent [in the music industry] is that anybody who does play the album on the radio and anybody who does choose to write in the media does so because they want to, because they like it or because they find something interesting there, not because they have to.

The way I play guitar is very, very hard and I bloody myself incredibly without the tape. And the nails are my picks.