Try to find the right balance of keeping things exciting and treating your audience with respect, and also treating yourself as an artist with respect.

If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way.

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

One of my biggest heroes and people I was fortunate enough to be around is David Bowie. I look at his career, and he always had the balls to break things that weren't broken, to step away from something and try something new, at risk of failing.

When I was around Bowie, I was nearing the bottom. When we were touring together, I looked at him as a kind of big-brother figure and I also looked at him as somebody I had a lot of respect for. The age and the period he's at in his life, I'd like to be there some day. He has a kind of content peace about him that's something to shoot for.

Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.