Life's the longest picture you're ever gonna take.

If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.

I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it's done.

I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll.

To go through this life and see it through - what it really is - and not be insane or addicted, is a minor miracle for anyone.

I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.