I'll close my eyes, so I won't see, all of the love that you don't feel for me.

Some people are caricatures of themselves, and some people keep people coming back and keep themselves growing. Otherwise, the fans would get bored.

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

I don't go into any album with a concept or a deliberate direction. It's more letting the best music that really appeals to me at the time, the best songs that I find after many months and years of search and sifting through my collection, and asking radio people and journalists. It's really an ongoing search that's as much daunting as it is somewhat exciting.

I'm in a relationship, and I've been in one in a while, but all the people I've been with at various points - and I've had sequentially monogamous relationships my whole life - were all the right people at the right time.

We can live in fear or act out of hope.

I was raised with the blessing of being involved with peace and social justice, and the environmental movement. I have my parents to thank for that.