It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure.

I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.

I don't really like to write at a desk. I like to write when driving in a car. ... Once you're working on it, you're working on it all the time, and sometimes stuff'll come in the middle of the night, in a dream or something. Your mind is working on it all the time.

It was easier than explaining DiMaggio's use as a metaphor.

The dialogue between what's going on in the world and what's going on internally seems to be a natural thing - well, it's natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

Serious numbers will speak to us always.