What happened on "As Cool As I Am" was, you know how in the `90s, "the personal is political, the political is personal"? That was a really big thing. Choices you made about how you recorded and what instruments you used and how much real versus how much synthetic. Those were choices that were seen as very political at the time.

Being told that you are good at banter is like being told that you are a good person.

There was one tour where I thought, "If I can't get this feeling back of being excited to be on the stage, then I will quit." Because I have friends who have dialed it in and I watch their concerts and shake my head. I'm sure the audience can tell, too.

Arizona is really cool but I couldn't stay there for too long.

I think the music was speaking to that opening up of whose voice gets heard and how multidimensional that voice can be.

In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.

How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.