Nations are like people. Once you understand the interactions between nations, it's easy to understand why things are done, in terms of foreign policy, in a certain way. But nations are not like people in the sense that we are cumulatively represented by others - and their interpretations of what our interests are may not be the same as what they really are. And that's what's dangerous, even in a democracy.

With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through rock music - you can't do that in jazz. You can't do that with classical.

I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world.

Science has failed our mother Earth.

People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.