Politics is a part of life and art is about life. It doesn't mean that all the art has to be about politics - in fact, heaven forbid. But politics is a totally legitimate area of focus for any art, whether it's painting or songwriting or anything else, as much as sex is, as much as spirituality is, as much as any other behavior of people is.

Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else.

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.

One day you're waiting for the sky to fall, The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all.

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

All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.

Sometimes I catch myself doing something that I've already done. The more I've done, the more that's likely to happen. Then I just throw it away. I wait until I've got the right way of getting a thing done, which means my songwriting proceeds at a very slow pace. But it's the only way I can really work.