I guess there's just a meanness in this world

I think politics come out of psychology.

I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter...I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along...I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't...The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.

You have moments of clarity, things become clear to you that you didn't understand before. But there's never any making ends meet or finding any time of longstanding peace of mind about something.

I cut my bow from the wood of this tree of evil. Of this tree of good, I want a kiss from your lips.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.