Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.

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.

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

What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.

I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.

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.

It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.