I do think that Americans are poorly served by their media, at times extremely poorly served by their elected officials who are non responsive to majority feelings and cut off to a certain degree from the affairs of the world.

I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.

How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to re-live them. How crushed we are when we discover that the gold was merely gold-plating thinly coated over lead, chalk and peeling paint.

You don't have to twist my arm to work.

I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.

When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.

Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.