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.

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

Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

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

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.