I just think the reassurance and the steadiness and the hands-on kindness can make a huge difference.

The biggest difference would be made if we don't have wars to begin with.

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

I just think the reassurance and the steadiness and the hands-on kindness can make a huge difference.

[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.

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

Just like my career, I've sung the same songs night after night in so many ways. It's always different because every space is different. I lost my mojo once. It was like Austin Powers. I don't know why or how, but I had to get it back. And I did.