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.

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, Id like to study piano.

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

That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

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.

So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.

The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind.