Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.

I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.

The missing links in my life's work, no less!

I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.

I don't want an entire world full of people just drinking Coca-Cola and eating McDonald's hamburgers and listening to American pop records. That would be a lesser world. I hope the cultural diversity is rich and is able to survive the Westernization of their economies.

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.