I have a golden Lab who goes everywhere with me. He's a great leveler.

Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.

A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I'm wearing as opposed to the music.

I would never put a video in front of my kid. While I don't use videos as a babysitter, they have come in handy on the airplane.

However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.

I feel we are so blessed to live in a country where we enjoy so many rights that other countries cannot even begin to imagine. However, it terrifies me that we seem to have lost touch with our connection to the earth. I am concerned that we have risen to such heights of arrogance in our refusal to acknowledge that our earth is rapidly changing in ways that might affect us catastrophically but instead, we hold steadfast to our belief that nothing can happen to us as a people.

The cheapest energy is the energy you don't use in the first place.