I'm as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes - and I will dare to say to you that I don't think of myself as a celebrity per se.

Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.

I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.

Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.

Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.