I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.

Every place you land in life has a reason and a lesson.

Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.

The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, 'Sometimes I just breathe you in.'

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.