It’s not easy to ask… asking makes you vulnerable.

I remember being a teenager and being really impressed by "let's sit around and b*tch" people, and I have so little time for those people nowadays.

Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.

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.

I nurture my close relationships like priceless lamps. That's part of why the job itself is inherently difficult and kind of a paradox, because you're out there touring and traveling and going a million miles a minute, but the things that are keeping you steady and stable can be really hard to nurture when you're going fast, and your relationships, which are the number one thing that help me through.

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

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.