You can say a lot more with a poem than you can with a song, but with a song you can really be more powerful with it. You can express it a lot more powerfully.

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.

With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.

Day is just a collection of hours.