I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].

I think if somebody comes up and simply says, your jobs? I'm going to bring them back. You're not comfortable with the browning of America? I'm going to build a wall. ISIS, I'm going to defeat them. Those are very - it's a simple, but it was a compelling message for a lot of people.

All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records but if you were a kid you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn't always say - you wouldn't dare say it was beautiful.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.