People say, "I'm tired of hearing about the war in Iraq. I'm tired of hearing about it." And it makes me realize how few people have deeper connections with it, as far as knowing people who have come back paralyzed or who have died, or families that have been affected . . . If they had a connection to it, then they wouldn't be tired of hearing about it.

I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.

I don't need drugs. Life is already tragic enough.

You feel that no matter what's said in the music or how pointed it may get, the most you can wish for is that it plants a few seeds.

I didn't respond to the kind of sarcastic tone. It felt like some of the Sarah Palin speech was written as though it were a Saturday Night Live newscast. Maybe that's because she looks very similar . . . She's got her Tina Fey thing going.

Wait a minute, yes, those are human heads.

The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.