Our society, where we are right now, our minds are junkyards. We watch TV and sit on the computer all day and barely have an original thought.
When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.
The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.
The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique.
I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.
I think most couples drift apart because of comparisons. Unfortunately, in our society a perfect match is when the man is more successful than the woman.
I really do think the things that make our society what it is are under threat. It should be about everyone having the potential to be what they're going to be.
From an egotistical point of view, I'm always interested in roles that push me as a person. I'm interested in humans as animals and as products of society.
I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.
In France, I discovered that I love writing in the city. There's such an intensity to being in the city that matches the intensity of what you're experiencing in your head.
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
I've always loved New Orleans music. I always loved it when the Neville Brothers opened up for the Grateful Dead and the Dirty Dozen and all that.
I can't read music. That's not where I come from musically. I come strictly from feeling, and that feeling comes from rock & roll.
We'll see some simplistic players for a while, who'll then get into more complicated things and evolve with their instruments. This is a cycle that happens over and over again in music.
The people that call me to play on records call me because they think that I will suit their music. And the people whose music I suit are by and large people that I'm a fan of.
You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.
What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.
There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic, come together, that's the reality of what music is.
I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.
