I found that the loudest fans in the world are in Istanbul.

When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else.

The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice.

By the cold and religious we were taken in hand - shown how to feel good; and told to feel bad.

What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us to understand one another better, or will they deceive us and keep us apart?

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.