I don't like the idea of famous people.

We didn't really swallow much of the Jesus thing, but we got the vocab.

I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

Now I know I'll never be numb again. A mother is condemned to feel everything forever. And I'm finally afraid, condemned to fear everything forever. But that makes sense: feel someone else's pain, feel someone else's everything.And he's my baby, so everything's okay.

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.