Nothing outside of my child is important

All the fear has left me now, I'm not frightened anymore. It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh, it's my mouth that pushes out this breath.

You pick me up and brush me off and tell me I'm okay, sometimes that's just what we need to get us through the day.

I do think music and the arts are imperative for our kids for their creative learning and their emotional education, which breeds better adults. I'm doing what I can to try and pick up the slack and I applaud anyone who tries to give back to their community.

I've never done heroin, but I totally understood what would drive people to that distraction-to need that so much.

I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to

Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics - they're a lot more tangible. They're much more specific. And you want to say something meaningful and creative and artistic and that tells a story and that takes people someplace else.