The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here? If you're a songwriter, you have to do that every time you start a song.

I think it's real important that people understand where the music comes from. If you can see where the music comes from, you can also see the future. It gives you a trajectory.

I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.

Your parents were always trying to get you to be careful when you were a kid, and that's all pervasive in this society.

The pervasive attitude is that it's crazy to invite more danger into your life.

If you want to promote anything, all the work that you put into it is basically promoting the idea of it so that people will go for it. And if they don't go for it, you can't institute it. You can't do it.

The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here? If you're a songwriter, you have to do that every time you start a song.