You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that.

To try to please people is an endless chasing of one's own tail. That's not very satisfying, so we do what we like and that satisfies us. When it does work out, its a bonus, really.

The things that affect you most deeply - the things that will destroy you if you don't sing about them - are the things that you often end up singing about. It's really just about saying those things that everybody thinks but no one will say and making a connection by uncovering these diamonds that are inside of all of us that no one wants to tell each other about.

We don't ever want to shut down and say, I'm afraid to go that far down the road because there's going to be pain. There'll be beauty, too, and if you stop here, you stop all that.

I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.

We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive.

Being around people who are happy and people who are creative, that's what you do if you're lucky in your life.