A Patriot Is Someone Who Cares What

There Are Quite A Few Honest Songwriters Out There Writing About Relationships And Their Own Personality Traits. But For Some Reason, Once They Step Out Of The Bedroom, Their Honesty Doesn't Seem To Come With Them.

I Enjoyed So Much Working With The Guys From Wilco, And Riffing Off Of Them, And Having Someone Come Up To Me With Ideas, Because Normally In The Studio It's Me Who Has To Come Up With All The Ideas.

We've Heard So Much About The American Dream: Well, Trump Is The American Nightmare Made Flesh. All The Things About 'the Ugly American' That We Worry About And Which The Americans See In Themselves, It's All Of That. This Is A Politics Of Egotistical Display.

What Happened On September 11 Wasn't The First Act Of War, It Was The Most Unspeakable Act Of Murder And Terrorism. But It Was Construed By A Very Small Group Of People - There Is No Army Out There In The Dark Waiting To Take Over America. It's Like Being Stung By A Bee And Going Out And Smashing Up A Beehive, And Thinking You've Solved The Problem. There Are More Beehives Out There; More Bees Will Come. But They're Bees. They're Not Grizzly Bears.

So, In Some Ways, The Political Songs Tend To Be A Bit More Like Reportage, Whereas The Love Songs Tend To Be Like Novels, You Can Pick Them Up Off The Shelf And Go Into Them Any Time.