Popular music sucks so bad right now.

If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they wouldn't have the Grammys.

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

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

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.

You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.