I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

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?

Social change really cannot happen unless people are willing to take a risk, and they were. And I was so moved by that, and of course by the way that he spoke, that made a huge dent in my belief system and my spirit.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.

I didn't study anything really. I didn't learn out of the books because I couldn't read music very well, so it is what they say it is - you learn from other people. And my cohorts and I would sneak around the coffee shops and hear stuff we wanted to learn, and then you ask whoever was playing it to teach you.