I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.

Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.

I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.

I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.

I'm not a Democrat; I'm something well to the left of a Democrat, but I'm just realistic about the system.

I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.