Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.

All of the jobs have gone away to satisfy the stockholders, so that's where the economy has gone. These major multinational corporations do not see their futures in America.

Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.

For myself, I can't understand a life without a job. I don't know what I would do without employment. Retirement is out of the question for me.

More than 30 years ago, in Washington, D.C., I secured a copy of a single by a Los Angeles band called The Bags. The two-song 7-inch, released on Dangerhouse, had a girl on the cover who looked right at you with huge eyes. The songs, 'Survive' and 'Babylonian Gorgon,' were great and made many of my mix tapes.

In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.