Following your heart also means eliminating the things that no longer evolve you.

My nine-year-old daughter is very creative and colorful and trendy.

All of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways.

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

When I get ready to do an album, that means I have something to say for the sake of words, and I listen back to all of the things I've been creating and pull things from out of the air to go with them. It's almost like I start creating the album before I even think about creating it.

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.