My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.

I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.

Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

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.

Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.

My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.