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

Thank God my best friend's a therapist.

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.

The challenge is to just focus on what's actually happening, focus on the people who get it, and focus on the people who are listening.

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

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.

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.