I feel like sometimes we have to be a little less inclusive and tolerant if other people's opinions could lead to the destruction of our species.

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

That's the one thing you wake up with every day: How long have I got left? And that's the saddest thing in the world, because you have this absolute realization that everything you love you're going to have to let go of and give up. I look at my daughter and I think, There's going to be a point where I'm not going to be around for her. Even the thought of that breaks my heart.

My goal is to make one-not a hodgepodge, but just the sort of record that I would want to listen to.

I believe that to knowingly commit actions that cause or condone suffering is reprehensible in the extreme. I call upon you to be compassionate and treat others as you want to be treated. If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed or tortured then you shouldn't condone such behavior towards anyone, be they human or not.

But at the same time, I don't let myself regret things to the point that I'm paralyzed.

I know, in my heart of hearts, I don't do things for money.