I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be.

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

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.

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.

Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.

You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.