If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings.

Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.

Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.

We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe distance and for only brief periods of time. This could be why a lot of marriages fail.

When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up.

Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.

I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.

Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.

One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away.

Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States.

One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.

The GOP grows more and more unpopular with female voters seemingly every time one of its leaders gets in front of a microphone. Misogynist is as misogynist does. The GOP and its bloviating pundits don't like women and they are unable to hide it, nor do they seem to make much attempt to do so.

Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.

I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts.

Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance.

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.

If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.

I am neither pro- nor anti-gun. I am gun-conscious.

You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment.

Try driving the streets of Los Angeles without seeing a billboard depicting a film with a lead actor holding a gun. It's almost as if guns are harmless props used to bring out the cheekbones and jawline of the screen star.

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

Luckily for me, I genuinely like my audience. They really are a good bunch.

If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America's prisons are full of nonviolent offenders - a perfect example of American exceptionalism.