I'm romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not.

White people don't sing together very often, and when they do, it's about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony.

You can't really control how people hear stuff. It's hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.

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.

With a song, it only takes a couple of minutes to go back to the beginning and try it again to see if it works. The novel freaks me out because, what if you get into the eighth chapter and think, 'Let's go to the top and see if this works again? It's going to take me three weeks.' I'm in awe of that.

I think people use temp music quite a bit, but the people who write the temp music don't ever really learn that their music was inspiring a movie.

My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn't do it.