Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen.

We had the Vietnam War in the '60s, and there was a draft. The students didn't believe in it, and it unified them.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

I don't force it. If you don't have an idea and you don't hear anything going over and over in your head, don't sit down and try to write a song. You know, go mow the lawn...My songs speak for themselves.

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.

I think the ultimate result of it is you can get inside the record.

This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.