There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

The one thing I wished for my children is that they'd be readers.

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

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.

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.