A vote for change is a vote for a stronger, safer, healthier America. A vote for Bush is a vote for a divided, unstable, paranoid America. It is our duty to this beautiful land to let our voices be heard. That's the reason for the tour. That's why I'm doing it.

I think making things that aren't necessarily shiny, happy feelings, putting them in that environment is sometimes an easy way to deal with the ugliness. Like, I know that as a kid, that I found - I think I learned this a bit from my mother - that if I could be as warm around strangers, no matter how strange or what different environment I was in, that people tended to be warm back.

I say my hell is the closet I'm stuck inside.

If you live life, then you become what are.

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.

Because life is short but sweet for certain We're climbing two by two To be sure these days continue These things we cannot change

People are not very pro-active in general, I think, because we are too busy rushing blindly towards our own goals.