The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

It's time to impeach the president and get a man in there to get us out of this mess.

I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].

Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.