I have a creative life and a political life, and they're both equally important.

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.

In the morning, I need twenty minutes to cry, to wake up and make that shift, you know, and to just say, 'This really sucks'...to really allow yourself the fee…

It gives me a moral compass. I often refer to Abe Lincoln, who said, 'When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion.' I think…

Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters;united with it,she is the mother of the arts and the source of its marvels.

Any time I make a record it's followed by a painting period. It's good crop rotation.

I think it's part of that heritage or that tradition of the creative artist trying to reconcile the insanity and ruthlessness of the artistic process with livi…