In the late 80s, artists could be signed to labels and be nurtured. It wasn't, "We're going to give you one shot, and if you don't measure up, you're gone".

You've gotta know happy. You've gotta know sad. 'Cause you're gonna know lonely and you're gonna know sad

So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.

I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.

The joy of being in the studio is having people being utterly free to throw out their ideas.

I feel like politics have always informed what I do. If you know anything about my music, you know I've never been shy about stating how I vote.

God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same.