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

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.

We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.

It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age.

I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.

When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright.