I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

If you don't connect yourself to your family and to the world in some fashion, through your job or whatever it is you do, you feel like you're disappearing, you feel like you're fading away, you know? I felt like that for a very very long time. Growing up, I felt like that a lot. I was just invisible; an invisible person. I think that feeling, wherever it appears, and I grew up around people who felt that way, it's an enormous source of pain; the struggle to make yourself felt and visible. To have some impact, and to create meaning for yourself, and for the people you come in touch with.

Mental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that.

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.

Most of these - most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography.

The marriage-equality issue should be recognized for what it truly is - a civil rights issue that must be approved to assure that every citizen is treated equally under the law.