It's time to start all over/make a new beginning.

With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things.

I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them.

People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.

The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.

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

I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I never assumed that it would ever happen again.