I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit.

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.

I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.

It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happeningto them.