There Are Quite A Few Honest Songwriters

What Happened On September 11 Wasn't The First Act Of War, It Was The Most Unspeakable Act Of Murder And Terrorism. But It Was Construed By A Very Small Group Of People - There Is No Army Out There In The Dark Waiting To Take Over America. It's Like Being Stung By A Bee And Going Out And Smashing Up A Beehive, And Thinking You've Solved The Problem. There Are More Beehives Out There; More Bees Will Come. But They're Bees. They're Not Grizzly Bears.

If You've Got A Blacklist, I Want To Be On It.

If I Can Entertain People And Get Them To Open Up A Little Bit, Then They're Much More Conducive To Any Ideas I Might Have, Whether They're About Relationships Or Politics. The Most Interesting Songs, I Think, Are The Ones Where The Two Overlap.

If You Can't See That The Glass Is Half Full, You Can Never Be A Socialist. You Have To Believe In The Goodness Of The Majority Of People To Be A Socialist. You Have To Believe That If The Majority Of People Had Their Way, They Would Make A Society That Would Be Fair For Everyone. If You Don't Believe That, And If You Think That The Glass Is Always Half Empty, Then You're Never Going To Have That Sensibility.

At Some Point In Your Life You Have To Engage With The Fact That You Are Part Of A Society. Yeah The Individual Is The Most Important Facet In Society But Unless Every Individual Is The Recipient Of Free Health Care, Free Education Decent Affordable Housing And A Proper Pension Then Only The Rich And Powerful Will Be Individuals And The Rest Of Us Will Be Exploited By Them.