I try to look for the good in everybody, regardless of the way they're labeled.

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

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.

People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

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

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.