I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.

Patriotism can be good or bad. Knee-jerk patriotism can be very bad. I'm patriotic almost to the point of self-consciousness, but I love my country the way I love a friend or a child who I would correct if she was going the wrong way. Who I expect the very best from.

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble.

You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.

It takes a certain amount of courage to let the field lie fallow until you have something to say.

I really believe that we have a responsibility, almost a sacred responsibility, to the animals that share this planet with us.