How long will it be 'till we've turned To the tasks and the skills That we'll have to have learned If we're going to find our place in the future And have something to offer Where this planet's concerned?

I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent”s Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.

I never was a very good singer.

So it's not really whether you talk about politics, but how well were you able to do it. Peter Gabriel and Sting get away with it...U2...the examples are there, of people being able to carry these subjects in the music, and the audience is absolutely able to embrace subjects that aren't just the stuff they already know about. And they're actually able to learn stuff.

And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.

How long can you hear someone crying - how long can you hear someone dying - before you ask yourself why?

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.