I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

There are some people who watch NASCAR for the highly skilled driving - but most people watch it for the crashes.

It seems like the other 20 people in the county know what is better for us than our own representatives.

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

When violence is real and you flinch away from it, violence does not push people to try and imitate that. Often, we shun the violence that makes us flinch, because it disturbs us. And what makes us uncomfortable and disturbs us is not often bad. What disturbs us will not make us imitate that.

I'm not deluded enough to think that everyone who knows my name is a listener. You know, I hope that part of that interest - part of that public interest - has to do with me still making records that people like.