My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

I put up with the music business because I understand that I'm in the tradition, I'm in a tradition that's of far greater importance than the business I seem to be in. Everywhere I go in the world, people ask me about the business that I seem to be in, but I'm not really in that business.

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

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

More than any audience in the world, Americans will cross their arms, stare at you and say, 'OK, whaddya got?' - no matter how many times you've proven it to them.