Everyone is tortured. Do you know anyone who isn't?

You must always know how long to stay; and when to go.

Studios are designed to pull out all of that beautiful ambience you get from singing in a room, and then the engineer puts it back in digitally or through whatever machinery you've got.

I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.

Most everything means nothing, except some things that mean everything.

Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.

I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole patriarchal thing, the whole male-dominated approach, really bothered me.