I'm a liberal to a degree, I want everybody to be free. But if you think that I'll let Barry Goldwater move in next door.

If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They have got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.

In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.

I do know what my songs are about.