There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.

For me, music was an age/time/place thing. One day I woke up and realized I was done. That was many years ago.

I have lived in public as a somewhat recognizable person since I was a teenager. Emails I answer end up posted on sites; pictures of me and someone I just met, taken by a cellphone, literally number in the thousands and are easily accessed.

Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.

The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.