In my life I have had various health threats: polio, seizures, a brain aneurysm. None of these things has really changed me much, although it is hard to say for sure. These are events that are part of my life. They make me who I am. I am thankful for them. They are scary.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

My career is built around a pattern that just keeps repeating itself over and over again. There's nothing surprising about it at all. My changes are as easy to predict as the sun coming up and down.

You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.

The youth of this country are not behind what is going on. We all know that. If you looked at a [political] map of the United States 25 and under, it's all-revealing. It's a unified map.

I always try to get behind the guy steering the ship. That's the kind of guy I am.

There's a lot of frustration in trying to get music out when you're the only one who hears it, especially if you have something in your head that's not normal.