I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.

As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.

I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside.

Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.

Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, "I will never let that happen to you."

My family, before the divorce, moved several times, and after that we moved a whole bunch more times, and so I don't have an anchor to a single place. Probably as a result of that, I'm a little more attenuated to when people do feel close identification to place, whether they say it out aloud or not. I think that there's a sort of local patriotism that is deeper than national patriotism.

I did a lot of music criticism. I don't think much of it was any good. I think I wanted to show off a lot when I was younger. Now I just want people to enjoy the story. If it were possible to publish anonymously, that would be awesome.