I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I just thought, what a great concept f… - Tommy Lee Jones

You can rock shit as loud as you want, as hard as you want, but there's a soft side to every artist. You gotta have something more to say other than ("throws up devil horns") "YEEEEEEEAAAAHHHHHH!" There's gotta be more, otherwise you'd be fake.

The old-timers thought, Well, fire's bad; we'll get rid of it. That was certainly a mistake. We have to get it back into the system somehow, in safe, controlled ways. That's what I'm into now.

I refuse to be pessimistic. I don't believe in it. I hope that we can find a way to keep from destroying the earth.