Having a child at 55... that's optimism.

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

Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.

My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.

I'm supposed to make people cry, but not by manipulating.

When I write something simple I'm always really proud of it. When you write something that simple with that much air in it and the whole premise behind it is something pretty obvious - that everybody wants to be happy and free - the song is sort of an exercise in not forgetting that's what you really want and what you really need. We can get caught up in a lot of other stuff.

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.