I love him (Muse) too much, and you can't hurt someone that you love that much . . . unless you're family.

It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.

Like the eagle, we (artists) must be able to see clearly.

Smart art galleries know it's not the words on paper but the emotion in the piece that makes clients pull out the credit card or check book. The gallery's number one concern is will this stuff sell? What your bio, artist's statement or resume articulates will be of no help if you don't make art that connects with buyers.

I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'

I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my friend, you're my wife, you're my girlfriend, you're my co-worker. 'This is your box, and you're not allowed to stray outside of it.'

We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.