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

My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.

The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.

From the moment [Bob] Dylan arrived as a songwriter, he was [so] much better than everybody else around.

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

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

I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.