I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.

I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering.

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.

I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.

We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.

I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.