When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.

Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

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

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.

It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.

Every once in a while I'll say something...I dropped the F-bomb early on in my career. There was this lesbian couple and they looked super-hip. One of them looked at me and shook her head, like "Don't do that." I think she was doing it to say, "It doesn't work." She didn't say anything but it was this cautionary moment. I knew it didn't work. There are just so many other words to choose from.

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.