I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.

There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'

When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it.

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.