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

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

Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight.

Going to places like Honduras, Nicaragua, and various African countries you get to see very clearly what the cause and effect is. We finance the obnoxious elites in those countries and they exploit their people so we don't have to say that we're doing the exploiting but nevertheless we are benefiting from it.

We all grow up with anger. It's part of the human condition. But what do you do with that? It seems obvious to me that you've got to use it for something, but you have to separate it from your ego.

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.

There is no gap between art and politics.