I try to be careful not to do single concerts where I fly out, do my show, turn around and go home.

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

Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.

"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.

Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

I came out of that and said I don't want to go back to feeling depressed. So I asked myself, what can I be optimistic about, in terms of the course of the planet? And I discovered there was no end to the optimism I felt.

As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.