I like visiting LA, but I wouldn't want to live there.

What happens when your dream comes true - when the spotlight is on and then it moves away?

I'm just trying to get rid of all the mystery surrounding me and let people see what I'm thinking. So they can understand me and stop assuming things about me.

If life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lie down and die?

I listen to NPR and baseball games when I'm in my car. I mean, exclusively NPR and baseball games, and that's it, as far as the radio.

I could make a whole album with no one else involved at all. It would be a total, unadulterated expression of myself. Because whenever you have others playing on a project, their influence becomes a part of it.

A heart that hurts is a heart that works.