Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.

Now that I believe in God, I have an extra layer of saying I'll write about what I write about and assume that I'm being offered the opportunity to illuminate something important. But when you think you are too important, you become some sort of fascist.

I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.

For my 50th birthday I just want to make it all make sense [being exactly half introvert], and then a couple of weeks later do the blow-out with all my friends.

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.

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