You've got a deadline. Well, I do, too: death.

I try to make those references. I try to make sure that they're not too obscure. But outside of that, I dare not claim anything in the spiritual realm for my own.

Dear Hitler Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this

We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?

At the very center of our culture is a crucified man, a tortured man hanging on a cross of wood. You have an image of violence at the very center of our spiritual investigation.

I don't have any spiritual strategy.

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.