President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.
Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.
No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.
Our whole philosophy is one of transparency.
The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.
The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.
People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than Pr...
The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.
I met PJ Harvey when I was in England, and the first thing I want to do when I meet a songwriter I admire is to ask them how do they receive songs.
When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
As soon as I could talk, I was bellowing at the top of my lungs. My parents couldn't get over how weird I sounded - like an old man when I was just a toddler! But no one was gonna shut me up.
If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right then and there.
I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.
I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.
I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.
I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.
I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.
It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.
