Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

I was in chemical jail.

Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.

I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

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.

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.