There are a lot of people out there who are exactly half extrovert and half introvert and they love to be extroverts as long as they have enough time to go off and figure it all out.

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

I have a sordid past.

I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.

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

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?

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