Nowadays, the media have to be there to keep you from asking too many questions, from getting together with other people who might want to do the Jeffersonian thing and call out the government.

Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.

You can find me in the frozen mood section.

My feelings for you shame me into silence.

My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that West Berlin was surrounded by a wall that was more than 100 miles long - the absurdity and intensity of it really knocked me out.

I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries like I do.

I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things.