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

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

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

When you trust people to help you, they often do.

We can only connect the dots we collect, which makes everything you write about you... your connections are the thread that you weave into the cloth that becomes the story that only you can tell.

What I have found is, so much of that is like a Chinese finger trap: the more you play to the dark, the more you will get trapped in the dark, and if you just play to the light and focus on the people that don't misunderstand you and focus on the audience that does celebrate you and focus on the people who aren't trying to tear you down, all that other stuff eventually erases itself because it has nothing to feed on.

The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like Im in the middle of a battlefield.