For my 50th birthday I just want to make it all make sense [being exactly half introvert], and then a couple of weeks later do the blow-out with all my friends.

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

But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.

If a war has to happen, a war has to happen.

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

"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.

What happened on "As Cool As I Am" was, you know how in the `90s, "the personal is political, the political is personal"? That was a really big thing. Choices you made about how you recorded and what instruments you used and how much real versus how much synthetic. Those were choices that were seen as very political at the time.