My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.

Don't waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power - it's time.

Generally we don't really consciously do it as a purpose-driven thing. ... It's really just a response to life.

Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love.

I believe in this country [the USA], I love this country, I believe in the idea of this country, and this country is an idea.

The stupid thing I incorrectly believed for a long time is that I believed for a long time that some politicians could sometimes tell the truth.

I want to look at myself the way I do on purpose, because if you aggrandize and try to look at yourself the way a fan does or the way a reviewer does or the way - God bless them, they all got a right to, everybody's got a right to an opinion about it.