I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero.

I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my professional life as a public figure.

But at the same time, I don't let myself regret things to the point that I'm paralyzed.

There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure.

You could almost say that throughout human history there are people who can either foresee consequences or who are capable of looking for information and predicting the consequences will happen, but the vast majority of people won't respond to climate change until their city is underwater, food supply is disrupted or everyone around them is dying of zoonotic disease. It's almost like someone dealing with an addiction, like you hope that the person can overcome the addiction before the addiction kills them.

People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay.

For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it.