I do one take; I never overdubbed twice. I know there's stuff that isn't perfect, but it doesn't matter: Nothing is perfect, and there is a magic there that is undeniable because of the fact that we don't care about those things.

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.

It doesn't affect me because I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone. [...] Piracy is the new radio. That's how music gets around. [...] That's the radio. If you really want to hear it, let's make it available, let them hear it, let them hear the 95 percent of it.

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.

No one has the answers, but one thing is true. You got to turn on evil, when its coming after you.

Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.

It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.