How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.

I spent a year pulling all-nighters and driving around in a really tiny fuel-efficient car relying on the kindness of strangers and seeing this incredible range of landscapes throughout the United States. That's what happened with The Honesty Room. It was a huge night and day switch.

Hegemony is not defined by rivers or conventional borders - it's dominance, it's influence. So we get to decide in our hearts, are we in Iraq to help restore something, or are we there to establish dominance? How can you torture people and say, well, that's just a few bad apples in our culture?

And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.

If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.

I would push for more production and Steve Miller would say, "Why do you want to have more production when you have real songs? You don't want to cover up the song."

I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards.