I'm laughing at you, you're laughing at me.

Mental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that.

Together, we'll live with the sadness. I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.

I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.

It's time to impeach the president and get a man in there to get us out of this mess.

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.