I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.

If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?

I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.

If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.

We went from an era when rock 'n' roll meant wearing a bustier as a woman and these spandex things and guys trying to portray someone that wasn't realistic. We are trying to make it seem real... relate to our lives.

I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.