I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to run or they'd shoot me.

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

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

As a child I spent a lot of time at the library.

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.

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right.