I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

Music is not a commodity, it's a resource.

Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it all

Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.