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.

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

If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.

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

I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.

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.

I'd rather let the music speak for itself.