It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all kind of evens out.

I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.

Some days I feel like I'm an atheist. Most days, I feel like an agnostic. On a very rare day, I feel like I'm a believer in something.

You could be happy, the minute you try. Why won't you try? Oh won't you try?

I would say I'm a humanist. I like that. I mean, I don't claim to know anything, but I'm curious about it all. I'm always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time believing anything.

I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.

There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.