I listen to blues music a lot and that's a good person feeling bad and celebrating that pain by releasing it in that kind of joyous fashion.

The easy solution isn't the solution, it's the problem.

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

'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.

I just write what I think is good and keep it at a thousand words.

I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.

I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities. In all of that, there is no spirituality required. No God and karma is needed for the numbers. I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.