You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

I can deal with conservatives in a democracy. With real conservatives, I don't agree with them, but I understand why they believe what they believe and I believe they're being honest with me about it.

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

The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.

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.

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

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.