I can picture the color of the song, or the shape of it, or who it is that I'm trying to appeal to, in the song, and what I'm trying to, almost, reinforce my feelings for. And I know that sounds sort of vague and abstract, but I've got a handle on it when I'm doing it.

They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing a lot of outdoor-type poets, who would recite their poetry. When you don't have a guitar, you recite things differently, and there used to be quite a few poets in the jazz clubs, who would recite with a different type of attitude.

If I could have any job in the world, I'd start out by writing a blog on Wired.com.

Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.

Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall.