War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.

There are times where I would keep three typewriters on a table, and I'd have three complete thoughts going. With computers, you make folders, files - I don't know about those things. I have sheaves of paper polluted with words and paragraphs. I found it a good tool for me. And it keeps your hands strong for guitar playing.

I've stepped back a few times and had these crazy epiphanies that we are blessed by having Barack Obama as a candidate at this time in our history. If we were ever to have a man of color become president - and it shouldn't be about that, and it doesn't need to be, because he's qualified on all levels - but if you do think about it, just in terms of that idea of unifying people, it's a huge positive.

I'm not a college graduate, but I don't know how George W.Bush could have truly believed that the flower of democracy was going to blossom in that part of the world, I mean Iraq - at least in part because the governments there are so tied to religion .

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.

Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.

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