New generations have unprecedented power to make great changes. Take the music business for example. The new generations have toppled the music industry by file sharing, downloading, and Myspace. Rock 'n' roll belongs to the people.

A lullaby should be timeless because it's a timeless concept - the birth of the child.

Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.

I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.

In any performance, you're on stage for two hours, and there's 40 seconds or maybe a whole five minutes where you feel like the whole universe is in place, and you've gone even beyond the universe that you know.

When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.