You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it's real. I don't think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can't fool everybody.

Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.

With the recognition comes additional responsibility, because then we're no longer a one-shot. We're now part of the environment.

What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.

If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life.

We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it's not OK to take drugs? Blah, blah, blah. What's a crime? What's criminality? What can you do, what can't you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn't really make sense.