The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

Everything I do is about setting up for the next. I think that my confidence and belief in myself as well as the music and trusting my judgment of my songs really grew the most.

This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of entropy, of universal destruction.

You know the little camel on the pack of cigarettes? They just found out that's not even a camel. It's actually a horse with a big, old tumor growing out of its mouth.

Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.

I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

When everything changes we learn who we really are. What’s really important. What we want most. We discover the truth in moments of disarray.

If you want to preach a revolutionary message, wear a suit.

Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate

Too often, we don't give people the opportunity to fill in the blanks.