All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?

We need to have faith in the people who are giving this movement direction to be smart enough to stay one step ahead of what's coming up next.

Social change really cannot happen unless people are willing to take a risk, and they were. And I was so moved by that, and of course by the way that he spoke, that made a huge dent in my belief system and my spirit.

I'd hear a tune in my head and the words would come. And then, very suddenly it just stopped. It seemed too stilted to try and learn how to write a song, to go to round robins and to learn things from other people on how to write a song. So I just stopped and did other things.

I've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.

Somebody else does the rigor and then I listen. I have an assistant, and my manager, and other people who hunt and find and send it to me, and then I just figure out which ones I can do justice to.

My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?