I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

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.

As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.

For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.

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

I've always had an active imagination.

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