As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.

I'm just too busy living every day to really spend a lot of time thinking 'am I old?' I'm this age. I am in this moment and in this life.

Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

Like falling stars from the universe we are hurled Down through the long loneliness of the world Until we behold the pain, become the pearl

When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.