I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.

I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.

I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.

The people that were invested in me staying the same way after a decade will most likely by default have to be disappointed.

And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.

There is consequence of our forgetting who we are. Forgetting that we're able to create our environment, from our health to economy to war. Something can be done about everything we perceive as bad, if we so choose. If we are aware of the concept of compassion.

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.