Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

Every country that's ever been the most powerful country in the world ceases to be the most powerful country in the world at some point.

Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive requires more work than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn't exist anymore.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.

We're Americans. I don't consider us to be evil, I just don't think we know any better. We're a really young culture. We're hillbillies, and the rest of the world sees us that way. I travel all over the world, and probably the only worse rednecks than us are the Australians. And they're an even younger country.