To love means you also trust.

If it came back I would be thrilled. I would be delighted to write more songs. I need them now because I want to make an album and I have to depend on other people's music, which I've done for years. But still, it'd be really nice to be able to sprinkle it with my own.

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

In other words, it is what I do in the world that matters. When I traveled for three months in the Mideast, the places I wanted to go back to were Turkey and the Gaza Strip. It has to do with what Gandhi said: he found God in the eyes of the poor. Those are the places which were so moving that they were just unbearable.

The search is in the doing.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?