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.

These precious things, let them bleed.

Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people.

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

If you're a lame brain, then you're a lame brain. I can't help that.

My favorite saying is, 'If it's too loud, turn it up.'

Confucius does his crossword with a pen.