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.

It takes a unique woman to see me as any sort of catch.

Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.

For his sake I'm sorry that Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil, but for our sake and the sake of music I'm glad he did.

How do I transform pain. I guess the number one way in which I do that is by working on music, but also it can be anything from just talking about it with other people or doing kickboxing or meditating or running around with dogs. Or just simply trying to sit with it and be mindful and be aware of it.

I love nyc. It's the city of my birth and probably the most amazing city on the planet.

Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.