There's no type of music I don't like. I think it's important to be able to make fun of all types.

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking.

Sometimes you have trouble because someone 'likes' your music so much. They follow you around for hours singing little bits of the songs, or just freaking out.

People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'Swanee River' on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note.

I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.' You have to sit down and listen to tell it apart from other things.

Don't make your life bustop final destination, keep moving, focus on your VISION and don't give in.

If you want to be loved, love deeply and get lost in love.

Because I'm stern and scolding [the characters] sometimes, I'm sure I'll get a ton of grief.

I have not been so much pushed by winds as pulled forward by the force of my decisions.

The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.

Praise is the 'breath' which gives us life, because it is intimacy with God, an intimacy that grows through daily praise.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

All confessions are Odysseys.

People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.

If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.