Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud.

Most artists I know consider themselves to be phonies, along with the feeling that there's something that you're doing is essential, essential to communicate, and deeply, deeply real.

When you have three teenagers, it gives a whole new meaning to "homeland security."

You can't kill your way to security and you can't lead by scaring people.

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

When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I admired did. That's what Bob Dylan did, that's what Frank Sinatra did, Hank Williams did, in very different ways.

Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun. Oh, but mama, that's where the fun is.