Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you get to hear it.

This is an election year, and I think we're in desperate trouble and it's time for people to speak up and not pipe down. It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know.

When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.

We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn't the case.

People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.

The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning.

I think there's mind in nature. There's a power in nature, and there's a universal power that you'd better not ignore.