Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.

People love to hear the mistakes you've made.

When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.

It doesn't take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need him; I needed him, but now I need his best friend. Rather limited scope.

You can kill that man but not his song, When it's sung the whole world round...