[Mortal City ] was also the beginning of the reality of the fact that I was going to have little pieces of my personality identifying with all of these different parts of the country.

And I'll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.

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."

In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.

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

"Is it how she moves, or how she looks?" I say it's loneliness suspended to our own like grappling hooks, And as long as she's got noise, she's fine. But I could teach her how I learned to dance when the music's ended.

Slavery doesn't have any positives.