I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.

Honor the community you come from. Tell their stories.

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.

The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.

The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.