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 think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die in vain? Because the answer is too awful.

I was trying to disturb the war.

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

Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.