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

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

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

My therapist says that I choose women that I couldn't possibly succeed in a relationship with because I really want to be alone. Which sounds complicated and convoluted to me, but I don't know. Maybe she's right. There's a part of me that wants that.

I'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago.

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.

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