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

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.

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.

As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do with the fact that my mother was always discussing things with my sister and me - also because I read a lot.

At this point in my life Id like to live as if only love mattered.

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

I don't try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am.