You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.

The music is pretty relentless. You've got to find some way of letting the audience breathe for a minute, give them a little bit of air - but not too much. Otherwise it would get real intense. The room would get very tense.

When I was young, it was sort of built to intimidate. Even on this very local level in this very small church in this small town, it still held that sort of - held you in the palm of its darkness.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

A great singer has to learn how to inhabit a song.

The moment you begin to depend on audience reaction, you're doing the wrong thing. You're doin' it wrong, it's a mistake, it's not right. You can't allow yourself, no matter what, to depend on them.

At night I wake up with my sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head.