I'm just tired and bored with myself.

Politics and life go hand in hand.

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

I looked at myself, and I just said, well, you know, I can sing but I'm not the greatest singer in the world. I can play guitar very well, but I'm not the greatest guitar player in the world... And so I said, well, if I'm going to project an individuality, it's going to have to be in my writing.

You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.