There Is A Root Arrogance In Any

The Extraction Of Oil, Coal And Minerals Brought, And Still Brings, A Cost To The Environment.

I Wouldn't Run For President. I Wouldn't Want To Move To A Smaller House.

The Strangest Thing Has Happened. I Really Missed My Dog. That's Never Happened To Me Before. You Know, On A Long Tour You Do Hear People Saying They Miss Their Pets. I Never Have. But Last Night I Started Really Missing My Dog. It's Very Odd, 'cause I Don't Have A Dog.

You Don't Become An 'artist' Unless You've Got Something Missing Somewhere. Blaise Pascal Called It A God-shaped Hole. Everyone's Got One But Some Are Blacker And Wider Than Others. It's A Feeling Of Being Abandoned,cut Adrift In Space And Time-sometimes Following The Loss Of A Loved One. You Can Never Completely Fill That Hole-you Can Try With Songs,family,faith And By Living A Full Life...but When Things Are Silent, You Can Still Hear The Hissing Of What's Missing.

I Remember How My Mother Would Bring Us To Chapel On Sundays... And My Father Used To Wait Outside. One Of The Things That I Picked Up From My Father And My Mother Was The Sense That Religion Often Gets In The Way Of God. For Me, At Least, It Got In The Way.