I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is

I'm just being who I am and expressing myself as everyone else does.

I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the artist.

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.

A lot of people have dementia, which is great, because then they don't recognize me.

I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the excess clay and there's a piece underneath there. And it's kind of like getting out of the way. Maybe that's what the commonality is: It's getting out of the way so that the art can speak.

Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.