In folk music, I've always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don't know anything about the characters, you don't know what they're doing, but they're doing something important. I love that. I'm really a sucker for that kind of song.

Listening. That's what music is about. You hear it. And I'd listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.

If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.

How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn't get exposed to.

The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That's reality. The reality that's being talked about is something else entirely.