I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and free lives, against the superstition and bigotry of religious dogma. We need men like him today more than ever. His writing still inspires us and challenges the 'better angels' of our nature, when people open their hearts and minds to his simple, honest humanity. Thank goodness he was here.

I can get onstage and cut that off and be superinstinctive. To be a good live performer, you have to be instinctive. It's like, to walk in the jungle, or to do anything where there's a certain tightrope wire aspect you need to be instinctive. And you have to be comfortable at it also.

The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually.

cause down the shore everything's all right

Every song has a piece of you in it, because just general regret, love. You have to basically zero in on the truth of those particular emotions.

You can't shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains.

I think politics come out of psychology.