A lot of people do talk about the demise of the album, but I still believe that if an artist tries hard to make a great album, people will buy it and listen to it as an album, rather than just a collection of random songs.

Once the pathological low self-esteem goes, that's when things go downhill.

I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.

I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity.

No one drives in Manhattan - in fact, many of the folks who live in Manhattan don't even have driving licenses!

Factory-farm lobbyists are so powerful and so well funded and they do everything in their power to hide the truth about farming. They keep the farms and slaughterhouses in places that most people never visit; they execute huge marketing campaigns in an effort to make animal production look like a happy, nice, benign institution.