The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.

Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.

Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me.

I have no doubt in mind that I justify the space I take up in the world.

What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.

You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing amount of money, for a borderline Marxist, doing something that you love, but it does mean that this huge pool of money that was out there when I started making records in the '80s is gone.

I don't get in vote in whether or how people remember me when I'm gone. It's really dangerous to sit around and worry about it too much, for me. It gets me way too in myself to worry about what people are going to think about me when I'm not around anymore.