Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.

I think with each generation comes more opportunity. At least that's the way that I see it. I grew up in a generation that watched the birth of the internet. We all have. But I feel like I look around at the generation younger than me and it's a very opportunistic mantra.

I have OCD mixed with ADD, you try living with that. Its complicated.

I kiss people with my soul. I don't kiss them with my mouth.

Even as a kid I would find the one person whose attention I didn't have and I would zone in on that person. It became a challenge.

All you can do as an artist is do what you think is an extension of you. You put down on paper ... who you are. That's what being an artist is all about. And when it gets done, you don't look back at it and say, Oh, I could have done that better.

True leadership is when you are willing to risk your power and voice so that all of ours can be heard.