If you come across an American artist right now who has no political opinions or is afraid of talking politics, be very concerned.

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.

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

I want to be happy. i want to make people happy. i do not need to be rich to do that.

I think I've been addicted to openness since long before my rock career. I was terrible as a teenager. I used to go out of my way to make people uncomfortable with personal details. I was always fascinated by the idea that we have these weird, random boundaries between what we do and don't show.

I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.

One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.