As a listener, I like a wide range of sounds.

As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.

I wanted to touch on the piece where often politicians use "god" to excuse their actions.

I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it.

Really, everything for me comes from "Manifestra." It was an incredible gift of a song; it really describes an important moment in my life.

It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.

The only really weird part for me was making sense of the person on the TV at the same time as the person who I am friendly with and do something so friend-intimate with as text.

So many policy decisions that effect musicians are being made without any input from musicians at all.

I like garage band for writing because you only have crayons and there are only five crayons in the box. Your choices are limited and I find that to be very good for me.

I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want!

I didn't realize at the time that if I wrote about something, I was going to have to talk about something. A lot. Ad nauseum.

‪Fear should stop you for a moment so you can determine whether you're willing to sacrifice something to get you want.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

You may control people physically by force, but you won’t change their hearts and minds—that requires trust and friendship.

I wasn't crying about mothers, " he said rather indignantly. "I was crying because I can't get my shadow to stick on. Besides, I wasn't crying.

Taxes are the flip side of expenditures. The same issues apply on both sides. There are questions of fairness and justice as much in the way you take money away as in the way you disburse it.

If you're taking performance-enhancing drugs and you get caught, in my mind, you should be banned for life.

No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.

When John Kerry and Zell Miller and George Bush can agree on an issue, you know its got legs.

An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.

Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.