Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.

We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.

The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn't really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates thoughts and feelings, and I enjoy that. For me, once the music creates those thoughts and feelings, I begin to write a song about it.

Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.

...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.

I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.

I have my books and my poetry to protect me