There are so many bad songs that have incredible videos. It's pretty amazing, actually. The power of putting images to music is hypnotizing. It's a real power. That's a realm that I've failed at completely.

Within America, there are extremely different place. I'm not saying it's one homogenous color. It's obviously an incredible place. There's no other place like it, and it's incredibly diverse.

Africa. There are a gazillion different languages people speak there, different bone structures, so vast and different.

I'm one of those people that if you're told that if you put your hand in the fire, you'll burn your hand, I won't listen.

I've always wanted to write a song that goes, "I love you" and a book that goes, "Something happened." Something very direct.

If you have sensitivity then mysticism will be part of your life. It's a very beautiful thing and a very real thing but it's not something to not take seriously and it's not something to take seriously.

I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about medieval feminists.