Most of my records are never going to be commercial successes, and I don't expect that. It's just all a learning process to me. If something appears as a failure, fine. If there's success, fine. I like the record, and my friends like the record, and that's kind of all I can really care about.

I'm a big proponent of open adoption, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the kid isn't like, "Where did I come from?" And to have it be like, "Look, you have a bunch of people who love you." Not just the parents who are raising you on a day-to-day basis, but also to have contact with your birth mother and hopefully your birth father. So that you can be like, "Oh, they love me too, and they love me so much that they knew they couldn't take care of me but they're still in my life to some extent."

It feels amazing and beautiful that music can have such an importance on the way that people form social groups. Music can change people. People can change the world.

I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art was enough. My music was enough to say what I had to say.

I think as a culture, we don't like conflict or looking at icky stuff - especially in our downtime.

I don't consider myself a divining rod whom God is speaking through or any kind of crap like that.

I don't think I've ever had a woman yell that at me, but women have yelled mean things at me as well.