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 feel an extraordinary amount of sympathy for anybody working at a major label right now because their lives are over.

I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an outsider, period.

I get really fantastic results when I just get out of my own way.

I feel like I've gotten to the point in my career and in my life where I can allow myself to write whatever comes into my head and not judge it too harshly.

I don't think of myself as particularly cursed or blessed. I think I got dealt a set of cards, and I'm playing with them, sometimes in heels, sometimes in combat boots.

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.