Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can't see it any other way.

People don't buy records anymore. I don't know how people can support themselves.

I don't believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they've never heard before. That's just unreasonable.

Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.

I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that.

Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.