Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don't fail forever.

In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

It’s about a singer who first sneered about my allegedly not authentic style but later she stole and copied it. And now she’s acting like I am the art project and she the true super artist. My God and people actually believe her, she’s successful! I shouldn't continue ranting, it doesn’t get anywhere.

I'm happy when things are just kind of calm. I love going to the ocean. I love driving. I love going to shows. Just being with people I really have fun with. I love the summer. I'm happy in the summer. Love hot, hot weather. I'm happy when I'm making a record, most of the time.

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.

Everything I do, I do it for somebody I've never met before, something in the great beyond. That's my primary relationship, really, is with something divine. I feel a connection as real with that as I've ever had with anybody on this earth.

Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone. Who had nothing, who wanted everything.