Wave the flag, wave the Bible, wave your sex or your business degree, whatever you want, just don't wave that thing at me.

Once you tie anger and ego together then you're a monster, at least a latent one. So you have to be able to separate those things before you are going to be able to do anything useful with your anger.

Here's Iraq, where irrigation was invented, where law was invented, where writing was invented. All these things that we consider necessities of civilization started there. And the people who live there damn well know that.

There is no gap between art and politics.

Love the Lord and in him love me too. And in him, go your own way and I'll be right here with you.

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.

Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to see.