It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.
I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.
There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.
If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.
I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.
But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.
To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.
Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together.
Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.
I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.
I've loved doing "E.R." for the quality of the writing and the great people I get to work with.
I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.