I've had more people come up and thank me and say they never thought they'd see these cars again,

Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.

As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar people in the heart of America, my audience is basically, in the States, an NPR audience. I play college towns in the summer because that's who comes to see me.

The human race survived the Inquisition. We can survive. It's like the Anne Frank quote: 'In spite of everything, I still believe that people are basically good at heart.' Given what happened to her, it's one of the miracles of the world that she said that.