At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

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

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

My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.

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

People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.

I still write more songs about girls than anything else.