I think it's absolutely possible to write a song and go somewhere where no one's been before, uncharted territory. In terms of content, I see limitations where there should be none. I know there are things I wouldn't write about, but that shouldn't be the case. You should be able to make a song out of anything, out of any situation.

Nothing is plainer than that, if the principles of the church of Rome prevail here, our Constitution would fall. The two cannot exist together. They are in open and direct antagonism with the fundamental theory of our government and of all popular government everywhere.

I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.

To see both sides of a quarrel, is to judge without hate or alarm

But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.