It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.

Who can I turn to? Who can I trust?

I think I have to work to write a happy song. I write them carefully; they're simple and they're about when it's fun to walk down the street. You know? Because that's the best thing about when you're happy. It's just one little thing that makes you happy, and you're making friends. The kind of thing I can do is capture this moment.

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.

When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.

Singing other people's material was perceived, I think, as a weakness of my persona. The effect, though, was to make me dig my heels in and try even harder to combine the two.

I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.