I think it was a modest thing I did (Fahrenheit 9/11) ... this is an election year ... I'm not telling them how to vote. I'm saying get information about the issues ... at first there's just silence, then there's 'Yeah!' and then there's 'Boo' ... I have never seen a reaction like this, in all my years of touring ... Clear Channel can't threaten to not play my records because they are not going to play them anyway.

I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music.

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.

Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.

Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.

Rampant eclecticism is my middle name.

I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African music, based on huapango drums, and it's kind of like a 6/8 time signature, but it really is a very syncopated 6/8. And that's how I attack vocals.