As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.

I love writing. I don't claim to be great at it. Occasionally I get a good sentence off. But I love the activity.

A lot of people, musically anyway, have realized that they can do it, and there's an audience for it at least in their own country, and often thought a lot of countries have a diaspora that breaks out all over the place, so they have a pretty wide audience.

People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people.

When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.

We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.