My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.

My music - that's the one area I won't let myself be pushed around. But in other parts of my life, I'm a confused mess.

I love playing in front of people. I feel powerful, 'cause I don't have to really say anything - I'm just singing.

Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid of everything except the very best.

Puerto Rico has a stray dog problem. Tens of thousands of homeless canines - hundreds of thousands, by some estimates - live and die on the streets and beaches all over this Caribbean island of almost four million people.

I wanted to be a writer. I still want to be a prose writer. I feel I am more temperamentally suited to that kind of life, although there are things I still want to do with music.

The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.