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

I think fun is one of the best gifts we can give to each other. If everyone was having fun we'd be in good shape.

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

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.

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.

My pain is usually caused by some sort of attack on my ego. So usually, pain is an indication of something that, eventually, I'm going to want to transcend. But sometimes pain is just pain that you sit through. I find it can have a really exhilarating effect.

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.