I think you can't demonize somebody that's on the other side of the political spectrum, or you can't generalize about them.

But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man.

If you see me performing, you're going, that guy is simply the most extroverted guy I've ever seen. But if you've seen me very often on a daily basis and all the while growing up, I was very, very introverted. Very introverted. So I have sort of the extremes of both of those characteristics.