To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.

I'm sad, but I'm laughing.

What makes me feel alive is community, connectedness. Certainly family, parenting, relationships, friendship. All the way into colleague relationships and relationship with spirit, relationship with one's own self and inner child, and animals, earth, planet. Fostering and nurturing and really focusing on connection - connection in relationship with other and my own self and God. When I don't feel connected in all those three areas, life is not very good.

Whether you’re checked in or checked out, you’re always on a spiritual journey.

The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing.

All I can promise myself and everyone else is that this record is a snapshot of thisperiod in my life. It will be that by default.

America's a very traumatized society.