Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates recently, didn't do that because they woke up with a positive self image that morning and then felt like slaughtering their friends.

Let's be honest. You let yourself be pulled in because it felt good to be wanted, needed. But then it went too far, as projected images always do. If it's not a real image, but one that has been projected on to you, then you can keep up the masquerade for only so long before the mask cracks and the paint on the mask peels away.

Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say 'Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,' instead of saying 'there is no butcher'.

I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating.

There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.