Jerusalem is old, Jerusalem is new, Jerusalem can hold Moslem, Christian, Jew.

There we were all in one place, a generation lost in space.

There's enough ugliness - you know, we got wars going on and people dying and sickness and everything. We don't need to have our art be ugly. But it is, in a lot of it. And these people justify this crap by saying, "Oh we're just representing what's out there, man". Basically, you're making it worse and number one, the artist's job is to elevate people and to lift people up and to give them a place to go, something to hold on to.

I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.

I think longevity is more important than trying to make people realize you're around every second.

In the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed

That's the hard thing - getting started. You get started for a long time until you finally get to this point where people call you an icon or whatever they call you. It's nice. Suddenly the audience is with you more and they help you along and it's not so much that you have to do everything.