I saw sights I never thought I'd see in an American city. The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records, but if you were a kid, you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn't always say - you wouldn't dare say it was beautiful.

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

[It was a show that could have the audience singing along to a joyful] Blinded by the Light ... The Promised Land.

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.