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

Even the most deft pen is a clumsy tool.

I get very heated about anything that is socially unkind.

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.

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'm pretty freelance. A freelance meditator. I float from one thing to the other.

The main thing that I've learned, artistically, is that if I'm in pain and feeling the budding of anger - if I absolutely feel like I need to write a song about it, I'll either need to transform that anger into something positive, or I'll just need to throw the song away. Because eventually, I'm going to want to transcend that pain and that anger.