I've so much left to explore, it's enormously exciting to me. It's a passion. I just try and get better at what I do, and I study it very hard, like it is my life degree.

I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer.

I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.

Everything from a lifetime's worth of collecting things. You know as we go through life, and something stays and ends up on your shelf and lives there until you die? Just those little things.

Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.

My mom is a sculptress.