What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

I'm not a Democrat; I'm something well to the left of a Democrat, but I'm just realistic about the system.

I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.

I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.

I have no doubt in mind that I justify the space I take up in the world.

My son was diagnosed with autism. He's OK, he makes eye contact, but he doesn't talk. He needs eight hours a day of very intensive school, and you wouldn't even believe me if I told you how much it costs.