When did I decide to go into business? Well, it wasn't a business, when I decided. It was simply a need to sing.

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

I love music. I love making songs. I feel like I've been given a path where I can contribute, where I can protest if somebody does something really obviously wrong or inhuman right in front of me, where I can make a difference. Where I can most especially elevate, make you happy, elevate the condition, elevate the thing.

The easiest way to get laid by a girl, or get rid of her, is to write a song about her.

Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.

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 greatest thing is the internet and that means that anybody, you have just as much access as I do. And you can make your little tape and work on it and work on it until you got it the way you want it. And then you can put it on the net. And if it's any damn good somebody's gonna notice. That's happened over and over again now. To me that's good. That's good access that isn't controlled by the companies. I think that's a great thing.