It doesn't always have a shape,Almost never does it have a name,It maybe has a pitchfork, maybe has a tail,But evil is alive and well.

Tolerance can lead to learning something.

There are certainly a lot of people - and I won't name names - who are getting by simply on expression. And I guess that's valuable in some sense. But songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out.

There's only one thing that's certainAnd that's everybody, everybody's hurting

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

I relate more to the descendants of Galileo Galilei and the Wright brothers than I do to anyone else you might mention. If you could name someone working today who I could relate to, I'd be both surprised and thrilled.

I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively... writing songs was king.