I do a lot of stuff for free anyway. Like a lot of people who you see who don't need money. Mick Jagger - he needs money? He just likes to go sing Satisfaction every night. If I wrote that song I probably would do it too.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

Shirley Sherrod seems like a good and dedicated person.

I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.'

You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment.

I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul.