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

Most of the time, our deeper, stronger feelings are things we all have in common.

The people who have impressed me most - and the closest I've come to having heroes - are the people who have devoted their lives to making things better for others. These are people whose names you never hear, people who work for Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam, and other humanitarian groups. They're just out there in the world, doing stuff.

Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else.

My models for graceful aging are guys like John Lee Hooker and Mississippi John Hurt, who never stopped working till they dropped, as I fully expect to be doing, and just getting better as musicians and as human beings.

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

In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws.