I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

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

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

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.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.