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.

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

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

No drug is a cure, though. Drugs are just big pieces of tape they stick over warning lights.

I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.

I don't like what the radio plays for the most part.