Sometimes I'm really communicating with the audience and I'm hyper-engaged. Other times my eyes are closed and I just let it be what it is.

For me, it's very childish to tour on a train. And I think that's a powerful quality, to inspire childishness.

Even the most deft pen is a clumsy tool.

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

When you're comfortable, you're not necessarily inclined to care about things that are contributing to your comfort. It's difficult.

The goal is to be free and hopeful in the music. Because that's really the only intention you need. From there, every natural and powerful intention and feeling will, on its own, slide right out of you - out of your spirit.

Physical pain is problematic because it's very difficult to transcend that. Sometimes you're just in physical pain, and that's a bummer. Even then, there are beautiful things involved in the healing of that. I've experienced some.