We live in a post-authentic world, and today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It's all just what you're bringing when the lights go down. It's your teachers, your influences, and your personal history. At the end of the day, it's the power and purpose of your music that still matters.

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

I wouldn't be windmilling a Fender Telecaster if it weren't for Pete Townshend.

I always write with an audience in mind. If I feel that [connection] coming back at me then I feel like I'm doing my job. That's why people come to my music - for some emotional experience or a perspective, either on their own lives, or on the world that they're living in.

Because we lived in the presence of the church and the convent and the rectory and the school 24-7. And this was an enormous cornerstone in the lives of my entire family. They were all pretty serious Catholic churchgoers.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers.

It's time to impeach the president and get a man in there to get us out of this mess.