The currents rage so deep upon us, this is the age of video violence.

This violent rage that turned inward cannot be helped by drink.

Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound?

I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

Not too many songwriters, when they write songs go for broke. When someone does who's really good, it's astonishing. There's a reason a three-minute song can devastate you, or make you get up and dance, stop what you're doing and go, 'What is that?' It just hits you. And it's a very potent thing you're playing around with.

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all.

The most important thing is work.