As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly.

If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that.

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.

And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.

Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq.

I think any young person who is going into the same field as their parent whose parent has been very successful, it's complicated.And it was complicated for me.