I can do what I want to do, lucky me. But when these people are coming at me and asking these things, they don't really care about me. And I have felt like there were all these people who just wanted to use me.

The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that's unstoppable. You can't get through it, you know.

What acting does bring that music doesn't bring for me is the opportunity is the opportunity to be completely different in every way from whom you normally are, the person that you are when you wake up in the morning is who you are in your life. But to take that and have the opportunity to be the complete opposite of that, is the excitement of it.

I find that the love we share fills me up and makes me see and appreciate life in a different way.

If I know everything around the situation, all the facts, I feel like I can handle just about anything.

When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.