We wanted to sit down and conceptually work out songs.

I was way into Primus in high school so hanging out with him was a thrill.

We ought to be doing that with decent standard housing but if we have people who are absolutely on the streets in this case, I think it makes sense that tent cities are preferred to not having tent cities.

Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.

It's definitely an influence, I mean how can you not say you are influenced to play rock.

What's wrong is that we are not participating to make this the type of government it needs to be.

The end game is you change that law to making that law better, whichever law you're talking about.

It was awesome because we were doing Ramones songs.

We have an electronic vein we have tapped and applied it to a rock setting like tons of bands out there.

We became good friends with Galactic as well.

And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at ourselves.

I think a lot of it is that we used to tour so much that we never really had time to write songs.

If somebody comes to a neighborhood coffee hour, or goes to a discussion group, and they have a discussion, I do think that people really walk away with a real understanding of the issues.

The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.

There are so many songs that we just don't play anymore.

Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington.

A great thing about these trees is that they are excellent for cleaning, both groundwater, and of course, air.

Well, we played with Soul Coughing once for like two days, that was pretty cool. I mean they were all good, you can pull a great experience from everything.

I just feel like there hasn't been enough time away from all this other stuff and into this new world or sort of big world that it hasn't worn off yet.

We need to have the social investments by which to quote unquote distribute some of that wealth.

You can say that Wayne Coyne sounds like Neil Young.

I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that.

Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks.

We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way.

We wanted to sit down and conceptually work out songs.

We listened to a lot of Rolling Stones and Beatles records when we were recording. They were really good at not playing loud, but generating really big sounds out of everything.

I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you.

I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

Then I decided I couldn't just crawl in the corner and die, so I started putting pen to paper and wrote some songs. I had no idea what for or who I was going to work with. I tried to find my way and direction.

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.

The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.

It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.

Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations.

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.

The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.

Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

All my songs are where I am.

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

We would turn everything into songs in those days.

Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.

Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.

I had deeper, more reflective songs on the first album.

I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do it. It's a far cry from why some people do music today. They make it to order, which is pretty horrible.

The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way... well, actually, that's not true.

I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs.