For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration.

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

I've never sold my publishing. I have 100% control of all of my publishing and that includes everything, every use of my songs.

It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.

Have I been blind, have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind?

The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.

When I originally wrote "Jealousy," it was more like an exercise to try to write a girl-group kind of pop song. It was really contrary to most of the material I'd ever written. I didn't pay much attention to the song after I'd recorded it. I didn't really perform it at all the last 20 years. When it came time to make the new record, I decided to make peace with the song and have fun with it.