I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.

Are you strong enough to be my man?

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about regrets because there's nothing I can do.

Lie to me, I promise to believe. Lie to me, but please don't leave.

God, I felt like hell tonight, tears of rage I cannot fight.

Every night on the stop global warming college tour, Laurie and I would tell these great young people that they have the power to do anything they want. That we all have the power to create a movement for change. That the best part of ourselves is the part that rises up instinctively from compassion.

I have a philosophy that everything you write doesn't have to be good for everybody. There are going to be people that get irritated by some of the things I write-including my parents. And then there are going to be people that you draw in because of the pointedness of certain things.