I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.

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

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because there are lots of democracies around the world that function better than ours does. It's always been that way. There's some truth to the idea that it's rigged, but there is a way that it's supposed to work that.

I wasn't raised to not write about issues, and I'm just living in really politically charged times. You know, I'd rather write songs about girls, but it's just hard to do right now.

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.