I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.

I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.

But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.

You never know when you put out an album that's unique whether it'll get beat up for it or not.

Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.

When someone really goes to tell you something about what they're thinking, they're going to wear that experience with them. That's what you have to share.

I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.