The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask without shame.

If I were a guy, it would be, you know, just a different set of problems I have to carry along.

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.

When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.

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

Take on the pain and wear it as a shirt.

One thing about being a performer is you're not just doing an intellectual job behind a desk; you're out there performing and being looked at, being assessed for really superficial stuff.