I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.

Something I do love about social media is how you can expand your idea. You can make an extension of your art as opposed to just using it for promotion.

In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held in. But I think it changes, the nature of how that - what that energy is. And I need to court the muse in a much more serious way.

Let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King and recognize that there are ties between us, all men and women living on the Earth. Ties of hope and love, sister and brotherhood, that we are bound together in our desire to see the world become a place in which our children can grow free and strong. We are bound together by the task that stands before us and the road that lies ahead. We are bound and we are bound.