I feel like if I were to play the game completely and just get myself in a giant bottle of nail polish and put myself on display, I would feel like I had somehow cosmically lost. I feel like I'm taking a bunch of the ingredients and using some of them but not all of them and shuffling around and making people think I'm doing my job.

I have a handful of really close relationships in my life and I depend on those people heavily to carry me through and to help me stay steady.

You know, there are so many snarky angry critics out there who are just sort of looking to tear down whoever is getting talked about.

Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes.

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.

I've always felt like an outsider across the board, since day one. The challenge has been to simply not pay attention to my outsider or insider status and just do the work and play the shows and connect with the people. And not even bother to play this game of keeping score, which is what destroys you.

There was a dance that everyone was doing that was heavily skewed with the power in one direction, but the dance was basically working, and then the dance got really disrupted with the first wave of feminism, and nobody found their footing yet - not the guys, not the women.