In other words, let's give our young women the right weapons to fight with as they charge naked into battle, instead of ordering them to get back in the house and put some goddamn clothes on.

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.

When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it.

If your writing is good, if it resonates, if it connects the dots for anybody out there, the lovers will come, the haters will come, support will come — sometimes in the form of money, sometimes in the form of something less expected — and it balances.

I do what I want. I try to be nice to everybody. When I fail, I try to apologize.