The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor's been.

If you can surrender your protection devices, in order to track the potentially raw and perhaps elusive emotions that are the song's DNA, then that is creative vulnerability, which is ultimately hugely empowering.

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.

There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying 'What can I learn?.' That's a very different approach.

Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.