The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.

Love is stronger than justice.

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.

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

Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.