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.

I want a thousand guitars . . .

In the end what you don't surrender, well, the world just strips away.

When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.