I want to use songs that everybody knows or thinks they know. I want to show them a different side of it and open up that world in a more unique way. You have to believe what the words are saying and the words are as important as the melody. Unless you believe the song and have lived it, there's little sense in performing it. I never wanted to be a singer that

The corporations have taken over. Even in the recording studio. Actually, the corporate companies have taken over American life most everywhere. Go coast to coast and you will see people wearing the same clothes, thinking the same thoughts, eating the same food. Everything is processed.

If you ever tell anyone about Jonah's sexual dysfunction, I'll never play music again.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better.

What politics I ever learned, I learned in the streets, because it was part of the environment.

the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on