When I got into "Anna Karenina" and "Brothers Karamazov" and "Crime and Punishment," that was the stuff that - that had a big effect on me, because it was so psychological.

All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling.

Politics and life go hand in hand.

I think 1960s small-town America was very Lynchian. Everything was there, but underneath, everything was rumbling.

In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.

For me, President Obama is our best choice because he has a vision of the United States as a place where we are all in this together.

When you`re onstage you have a certain faith that somebody's gonna yell somethin' back. Some nights it's louder than other nights and some nights they do, and on some songs they don't. But that's the idea. I think when you begin to expect a reaction from an audience, it's a mistake.