But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse, fashionable fascism dominates the scene.

A number of Iraqis told us they had welcomed the U.S. forces as liberators initially but in the intervening months, they had come to feel that they had swapped one oppressive regime for another. The Iraqis did exchange one oppression for a lighter kind, in some ways.

And I'm wondering where the lions are.

Abu Ghraib, as bad as it was, can't be compared to what Saddam was doing to people.

There are so many people I love in the United States, and I've had such great adventures in this country and have been so well received by people here.

I always write the lyrics first. There are one or two exceptions over the years, but that's pretty much the way it's been. The process of applying music to words is a bit like scoring a film. You've got imagery.