We've always been trying to climb this ladder that leans so hard on our own idea of what our big songs are. We realized recently that we're not a band with big songs.

Writing lyrics with your wife does lead to talking about yourselves a lot. But this is not an autobiographical account of my personal marriage. It's almost about the marriage of the band.

Everybody knows we're big liberals and I was a very outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter, and I still am. It's impossible for us to separate the songs we're writing from what's going on in the world.

There's political content in almost every song we've ever written on some level. It colors everything.

I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.

Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'

Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.

Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.

Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?

It would be wonderful if this world was guided by little children, because they are closer to life than anyone else.

The salt blowing off the sea makes the air feel textured and heavy.

I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage.

People who are most interested in telling the truth about others are generally the least interested in having the truth told about themselves.

The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.