That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet.

We live in the digital age and, unfortunately, it’s degrading our music, not improving it It’s not that digital is bad or inferior, it’s that the way it’s being used isn’t doing justice to the art. The MP3 only has 5 percent of the data present in the original recording. … The convenience of the digital age has forced people to choose between quality and convenience, but they shouldn’t have to make that choice.

It's cool to go places where working people are happy.

Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.

Mothers need to know what they are feeding their children. They need the freedom to make educated choices at the market.

The Arabic states have to be integrated into the Iraqi reconstruction. We need the help of the Arabic community, which understands its culture. Americans arrive, invade, occupy.

It's the way I like to work for these kinds of songs [like "Peace Trail"]. It was the right time of the month; everything was looking good.