The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.

My feeling is that nuclear is a distraction. It stops us doing what we all know we need to do invest urgently in renewables.

People are essentially losing their temper for things that have nothing to do with the act of driving.

At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.

Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.

There's nothing remotely interesting to me about marketing music as a product.

Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?