I think grief is a step towards strength because it allows you to be porous and take everything in, and have it transform you. What will sit within you is despairing, but at least it's feeling. You're not numb. Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.

I think, for some artists, the fear of taking on a political identity stems from not wanting to be pigeonholed as political actor or a political musician. It becomes this thing where somehow your art can no longer exist on its own and be multifaceted.

I think when you're writing from your own life, it's hard because you realize that people have their own assessment of how they look, and they don't know how you will describe them.

It's hard to beat the visceral high of playing live and creating something spontaneous.

I have to erase my Google search histories, because they always lead to an obituary.

I'm always trying to encourage people not to limit themselves in the same way that many of our parents stayed with one job forever.

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.