The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.

There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.

I've spent too many years at war with myself, the doctor has told me it's not good for my health.