It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.

Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.

I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.

I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.

What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?

Life has a funny way of helping you out when you think that everything's gone wrong.

They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in.