My Music Has To Do With Beauty,

Not My Biggest Fear, But My Biggest Problem Onstage Is Over-emphasizing What I Do. I'm Pushing Too Hard. You Need To Engage An Audience. They Need To Be Able To Involve Their Own Imaginations As Well. They Don't Need Everything Thrust Down Their Throat, And I Have A Tendency To Do That. I Always Have Had A Tendency To Do That.

That's What We [outsiders] Feel America Is Really About - The Kind Of Crazed Ravings Of The Christian Right - When It's Probably Something Quite Different.

Sometimes The Song Isn't Strong Enough To Contain The Fiction, Because Memories Are Fictions.

If You Look Around, Complacency Is The Great Disease Of Your Autumn Years, And I Work Hard To Prevent That.

What I Want People To Recognize Is That We Have To Keep Working Together And Take Charge Because We All Have The Same Story.