To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.

In the United States, workouts tend to focus on body image and how you look. For me, it's really all about the brain.

A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours.

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.

What makes that song, I think, is how stark it is.

Children should always feel like the adults are living in this world to nurture them, to take care of them, to protect them from any bad thing that might come.

If I had a musical identity that was definable then it would be time to get into painting or something else. Race car driving.