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

It feels like it is a daily work and an ongoing task to undo all of the f - - g programming that I have had all my life about who I am supposed to be and how I'm supposed to look and that I'm supposed to win. It's a daily deconstruction of all that bullshit.

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.

It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!

The pattern's laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you've got the needle I guess that's the point in the end

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.

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.