Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.

I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.

Sometimes people ask what it was like when I got to meet Mick Jagger, and I must admit that you just try and chill out and be your best self around anyone that you meet.

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?

It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like, this all fades to black, and it's gone. It's dust. Choose carefully what you obsess about.