Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.

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

Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.

I’m going to be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender.

Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye.

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

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.