When people in government [make mistakes], they don't say, those people in the government. They say, we've got a problem to solve.

The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.

And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.

[Mortal City ] was also the beginning of the reality of the fact that I was going to have little pieces of my personality identifying with all of these different parts of the country.

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.

I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards.

Every once in a while I check and I say, do I still believe in God? And the answer is absolutely yes. And then I think, I suppose I should go to church now. But after going to so many churches in my life and trying to go with the flow with so many denominations, Eastern and Western, I don't really feel I need to go to church at all.