The press has let the country down. It's taken a very amoral stand, in that essential issues are often portrayed as simply one side says this and the other side says that. I think that Fox News and the Republican right have intimidated the press into an incredible self-consciousness about appearing objective and backed them into a corner of sorts where they have ceded some of their responsibility and righteous power.

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy.

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.

Me and crazy Janey were making love in the dirt singing our birthday songs.

Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.