Records are only one-dimensional. Even film is only one-dimensional. That's why music and live theatre is so important, because it's not the same thing. A recording is just a record of part of the experience, but it's not the whole experience.

San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.

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.

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

Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.

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