If I read or listened to critics of our music. I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

Life is not perfect. It never will be. You just have to make the very best of it, and you have to open your heart to what the world can show you; and sometimes it's terrifying, and sometimes it's incredibly beautiful, and I'll take both. Thanks.

I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin.

I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me.

I wasnt thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.

One of the great things about rap music... it leaves a lot to be desired, as far as I'm concerned, musically, but I do recognize the very important place that it has in music and in creating role models for younger kids to emulate, giving them the dream that they can make it out of whatever situation they're in.