This is the way I want to die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.

You can take art, you can have a baby, you can have a career.

I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures.

I think that you have to let yourself be agitated and annoyed and not be fully comfortable.

It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body.

When I think of my art tribe - you know, my peeps - there are certain people who are autobiographers that I really love. But for the most part, overwhelmingly, my tribes are the surrealists and the storytellers, in song and literature.

Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.