Kindness to me is only powerful if it has the cruel streak behind it. If someone is kind all the time under all circumstances, they're just simple-minded. Kindness is only worth something if you have the cruel streak to back it up.

It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.

I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics, it won't change that much.

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.

Don't make a threat and then not do it.

Kindness to me is only powerful if it has the cruel streak behind it. If someone is kind all the time under all circumstances, they're just simple-minded. Kindness is only worth something if you have the cruel streak to back it up.

Don't uncork what you can't contain