I don't know why, the very first word on my very first record is 'Jesus.' I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with.

I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.

I don't feel that censorship keeps me from doing the work, though. I'm my bigger censor.

There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.

I never had aspirations to go into politics or medicine. I always wanted to be an artist of some sort. I wasn't so politically motivated. I felt that the world from an early age was disappointing. My father taught me about the bomb, and it was eye-opening. From then on, I thought grown-ups needed to do a better job. I still think that.

We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn’t want to be without each other.