Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.

Just because you're gay, I won't turn you away. If you stick around, I'm sure we can find some common ground.

If you've got a blacklist, I want to be on it.

[A]s long as you're comfortable it feels like freedom.

I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas.

If we think we're a nation with great ideas, and a nation that wants to make the world a better place, let's commit ourselves and involve ourselves with our European partners.

The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.