How about not equating death with stopping?

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

Writing the record for me - every record is almost a surprise. When people ask me, what are the themes you want to grapple with on this one? I have no idea until the record's finished.

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

I'm lost, but I'm hopeful.

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

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.