It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.

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.

You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.

I know now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone.

A song is what you fall in love with first, but then I think a band's ideals and a band's sense of fashion and a sense of how they treat people is what you fall in love with afterwards.

I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

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.