I learned a lot about what it was like to have to use different hotels and not use the bathrooms, which made me more determined to be an activist.

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

Finding great songs is the hard part of my gig - it's not as hard as songwriting, that's much more daunting - but I love playing other people's music.

Whatever role we were in our family of birth, we take on this persona and in your 20s and 30s in particular, you end up thinking that's you and that isn't necessarily you.

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.

I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.

Really important issues are getting lost, so I can say I'm glad to be a citizen of the planet and do my part.