It's so hard for me to even acknowledge America without talking about race. If you look at our society, if you look at the prisons, if you look at the poverty and which side of the line the majority of people are, we have to acknowledge how we divide ourselves up, that there's racism alive in this country. And it's not in the law. It's in our minds. And that's what we have to actively battle.

In your eyes, I see what's on my mind.

I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.

We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us.

I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.

I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.

I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.