I get very heated about anything that is socially unkind.

I don't want an angry song with no silver lining ending up on my album. Then I'd have to play, or feel obliged to play, that song every night in repetition as a mantra of anger.

It's so rare that I'll read or even watch an interview. I don't want to, either. I don't want to see other people's comments.

I think that when you're open, you're at your most powerful.

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

In my heart, I'm always in my rail-hosen.

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.