I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.

I can deal with conservatives in a democracy. With real conservatives, I don't agree with them, but I understand why they believe what they believe and I believe they're being honest with me about it.

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

Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive requires more work than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn't exist anymore.

My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.

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

Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me.