Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.

I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this is the end in and of itself - then you've been suckered in. Because those are the consolation prizes, if you're not careful, for selling yourself out, or letting the best of yourself slip away.

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

For me, President Obama is our best choice because he has a vision of the United States as a place where we are all in this together.

If you have written really well, people will swear that it happened to you.

I couldn't worry about whether I`m gonna make it onstage or not. You can't. You just gotta do it. And if you do, you do, and if you don't, you don't, and then something else happens. That's the point of the live performance.

So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?