I’ve never seen the need to choose one type of music at the exclusion of another. That would feel kind of sad and arbitrary.

Musicians, actors, writers - we're all neurotic, odd people who've lucked into accidental careers. So I just don't like being around public figures with that sense of entitlement, it just seems unhealthy, and it strips so much potential for them to develop as a human being.

Should the progressives in Germany in the 30s have tolerated the National Socialists? Of course they shouldn't have.

I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community.

When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands.

In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35' is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room.

I truly don't judge other people's actions. But I think that factory farming is an abomination.