I knew naturally as a child not to forfeit my creativity to a world that's all laid out for me. I'll look at everything around me and vow to keep in mind that alla this is just someone's idea. It could have just as well been mine.

Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate.

I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.

The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy.

It's the ground that we walk on, it's where we sit, it's the language that we use. It's a difficult undertaking, but I think without healing that and creating more of a balance between the sexes, we will never have balance globally. I feel like I am going deeper and deeper into this space where I came from that I barely understood.

If you turn on the TV, you're going to get a certain palate, and if you go looking underneath the surface, there's a whole lot of stuff there that I think a lot of our generation would be really interested in.

The way I play guitar is very, very hard and I bloody myself incredibly without the tape. And the nails are my picks.