I am someone that follows the news and reads newspapers yet what do you believe and what don't you.

I feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can.

I do take enormous interest in what's going on. I try to see whatever I can, whenever I can.

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent.

When a poem might become a song, then certain parts are repeated and might become a refrain or a chorus, so they change in that way. But it's more the nature of the words and what they're saying that determines whether it's a poem or a song.

I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer.

You go back and look at some of the ancient writings that exist throughout the world about wars and it's the same; the human beings' articulation of events is the same. That really fascinated me.