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

When people in government [make mistakes], they don't say, those people in the government. They say, we've got a problem to solve.

A lot of men were also becoming more attuned and less afraid of women [in the nineties ].

What was nice about the nineties is that it was an example of music that responded to a desire of the times. It spoke to the social conditions of the times. Women were making more money. Women were saying, "My voice counts. If we're going out on a Friday night, I don't want to see a Rambo movie. I want to go see a singer/songwriter who sings about my life".

There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play.

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

"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.