When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.

I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.