I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.

This is how you control your domestic population - by making people afraid and by identifying an enemy.

I confess I've never felt like a passenger.

Each small candle lights a corner of the dark.

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.

People are encouraged by what I do. You can feel it. I feel it. People are ready to embrace their humanity and to embrace the rest of the human race. People are ready for the idea that we're all brothers and sisters and that we need to cooperate with one another.

When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.