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I Would Hope That The Future Would Have An International Community That's Not Just Bent On Commerce, But That's Focused On Refugees, Of All Kinds And From All Places. We Don't Know That Won't Happen In The U.s. Someday. It Literally Could Be A Crisis From Climate Change, Or Anything. I Think There Needs To Be A Global Focus On People Taking Care Of People.

I'm Not A Lyric Writer To Make Statements. What I Enjoy Doing Is Making Paintings With Lyrics, Creating Colorful Images. I Think That's More What Entertainment And Music Should Be.

If You Sold A Million Records, The Only Way You Could Be Disappointed Is If The Guy Down The Street Sold Seven Million. But You've Got To Start Dodging Bullets Once You've Sold That Many Records, Because Everybody Wants To Kill You. We're Not In That Position. We Can Still Be Very Successful And Not Have To Worry About Wearing Bulletproof Vests.

When That Much Time Goes By, You're Really Listening To Your Old Music Differently. At The Time It's Written, It Was The Beginning Of Our Career And With Every Song We're Thinking, 'this Is What's Creating Us.' Now, Nothing Is Creating Us. We're Well-created. We're There. It Becomes Just Pure Pleasure And You Become Sort Of An Archeologist Of Your Own Music. You Don't Judge It, Because What's The Point? It's A 30-year-old Song. It Just Becomes Fun.

It Isn't Necessary To Be An Untouchable Rock-icon Guy Surrounded By Bodyguards And Be Ushered In And Out And Have Everyone Do Everything For You. It Isn't Necessary To Change The Way You Present Your Band To The Public Just Because You're Successful. That Happened A Lot In The '80s: There Was A School Of Thought That Said People Would Like You More If You Acted Like You Were The Unattainable Star.