Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.

Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.

I wasn't raised to not write about issues, and I'm just living in really politically charged times. You know, I'd rather write songs about girls, but it's just hard to do right now.

What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.

You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.

San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.

I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.