People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.

Self-discovery in songwriting, bringing something forth that's instructive to yourself - some of the best songs that you will ever write are the ones where you didn't have to think about any of that stuff, but nonetheless that's what's happening in the song.

I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too.

People stand themselves next to the righteous They believe the things they say are true They speak in terms of what divides us To justify the violence they do But it is one, it is one One world spinning 'round the sun Wherever it is you call home Whatever country you come from It is one

Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.

You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?

You would think with all the genius and the brilliance of these times, we might find a higher purpose and a better use of mind.