I do like touring but my life sort of starts to fall apart under it after a certain point. So you just have to stop. And it's hard to.

[When I happen to] read interviews where people are such pros and they come out looking so good, [it comes off as] a little smug or something.

In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians.

I mean that's really depressing man. Of course, the kids are freaking out. They watch cartoons and sit in front of the television and their parents are just probably yuppies who focus their entire lives around the child. The child has no sense of context, no sense of what world they are inhabiting-just like this Disnified bag of Cheerios reality. Don't give them a @#$%& pill! God! Take them out on a canoe already! You know what I mean?

Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to actually live take a lot of courage.

Certain audiences get the double meaning and some of the references and ironies, but there's definitely been shows where I feel like I'm not doing it well enough for it to come across as anything other than "oh, she's hot and she's dancing."

The complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live vicariously through you, so you have to pursue more and more unpleasant pastimes in order to satisfy the armchair people. That's a kind of scary existence.