I think everyone's hungry for the truth

I was extremely moved by the plight of Tsunami victims and I was inspired to try to make a difference.

I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question.

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.

The whole idea of emotions being something we can't escape as humans, but that deep suffering that comes from resisting them, we can move out of that just by not resisting anymore. But it takes a really brave warrior soul to sit there in these emotions that admittedly don't feel good in the body.

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.