I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?

I saw sorrow turning into clarity.

Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.

People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.

Anger is an emotion that is very energetic. It is an ideal emotion to turn it around to make it work as a positive force.

If you have a slave around the house how can you expect to make a revolution outside it? The problem for women is that if we try to be free, then we naturally become lonely, because so many women are willing to become slaves, and men usually prefer that.

I'm into indie music. I think indie is going to bring back the spirit in music. There was a time when it was all about accommodating the music business, the music was getting tasteless, but the spirit is back.