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.

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

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

My overall responsibility is to be truthful. If people pay money to come and see me, looking for something other than that, then they've made a mistake.

There is no gap between art and politics.

Lord, spit on our eyes that we may see, how to wake up from this tragedy.

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.