You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.

I reached a point in my life where I felt like I was living through some old character.

Everybody I'm working with now is a friend. And I would be very, very remiss to work with anybody in the future who has not shown me who they really are.

You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.

Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and red reminds you of the color your not supposed to wear around a bull. So you name the song 'Cow.'

Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a God or Gods should pose no threat to you.

I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.