I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

You can't get your head around something if you're yelling.

I will do my best to dodge tonight's depression Hide in sleep Damage myself in dreams Wake up older, slightly more used.

Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.

I write what I can. I think being able to write like Michael Connelly and have a character that goes from novel to novel, or to dramatize history like Vidal or Ellroy, or have an explosively inventive mind like Bulgakov, would be an incredible thing. I don't have that. I only have what I have.

But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done.

There're some places that are more difficult or dangerous to navigate and I wouldn't look forward to going back. Like I'd much rather go back to Afghanistan - which fascinates me - quicker than I'd go back to spend a week walking around Nairobi, Kenya, which is a great and easy way to get yourself killed.