Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

I'm not a rock and roller, a hitmaker. I'm highly dependent on what's coming out of these vocal cords.

There's a consensus out that it's OK to kill when your government decides who to kill. If you kill inside the country you get in trouble. If you kill outside the country, right time, right season, latest enemy, you get a medal.

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

It sounds corny, but it's absolutely true: A song chooses me. I don't go looking for a certain kind of lyric. It kind of develops its own little arc and I'll just see what happens.

Somebody else does the rigor and then I listen. I have an assistant, and my manager, and other people who hunt and find and send it to me, and then I just figure out which ones I can do justice to.

God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness.