In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. There is nothing else that is important at all.

I don't really listen to Radiohead. I listened to the albums and they just didn't move me in the way, say, John Prine does. His is just extraordinarily eloquent music.

We, the great American nation, decided that we've got 138 military bases around the world and we've now figured out that we can buy these drones from the Israelis, and we've decided that the way to proceed is to use this new technology to go and kill anybody that we don't like or who disagrees with us or who we might perceive as making an existential threat.

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.

Each small candle lights a corner of the dark.

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

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.