Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.

I'm glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

Without a doubt, the warming of the past 100 years has been a welcome respite from a long and deadly Little Ice Age. The possibility that humans may have contributed to the recent warming does not make it any less welcome.

Music reminds us that the universe loves us

In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held in. But I think it changes, the nature of how that - what that energy is. And I need to court the muse in a much more serious way.

I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to.