Every straight man I know is a feminist. They wouldn't be my friends if they weren't.

Ten minutes before you go onstage and you begin singing that torchy blues song, you may just be drinking a glass of water and brushing your teeth and doing some deep breathing.

If you just take one foot in front of the other without any protection, you may end up falling off the fence.

By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways by my high school government and history teachers.

Artists are able to do well in the political arena because of fame, if only they can educate themselves.

Singers, musicians, and songwriters don't want to use the word "acting" because we want it to be more real than that - we want it to come from us: naturally, truly, really.

When I was sixteen, I began to think outside the box of my small town. Not that the people in my small town are in a box - they're not! There's a brilliant college there, and I had brilliant teachers from that college. But in terms of a conservative upbringing, which I did have within my own family, I just began to question things and to think for myself.