Sometimes, I have to really monitor myself, but the only monitoring job I really do on myself on stage is, Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Ideally, I send it in a flow of truth.

Unless you are in the willingness and ease and ecstasy of some kind of moment, you may end up the editor of your thoughts and of your expressions. I find I'm that way on stage.

I get very heated about anything that is socially unkind.

When you're in pain, you're genuinely very, very alive, and that's beautiful. Especially emotional pain.

Even the most deft pen is a clumsy tool.

What gets me pretty pissed off is the whole Monsanto engineered foods issue.

I think the most important thing to remember is that pain passes. And artistically, the pain is going to pass. It's what you want to express out of the pain as opposed to indulging in the agony-and-pain mantra of songwriting that became such a hit in the '90s and still, all the way up to now.