Now the expectation is that, once the public decides that the artist is gentrified, the public demands that the artist stop growing. And [the public] actually puts all their energy into reasserting or re-establishing what the artist has long ago left behind. Because that's what they want. The source of creativity, the gift that's been given, be damned.

There's a lot of days where you feel forgotten.

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.

If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?

I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine.

I've seen foreigners really shift on their view of America, and that's hard for me to take.