I think the thing you're seeing now with the music industry is that the people who have tight-knit communities are now able to really hold each other….

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is..

I never wanted to grow a thicker skin; I felt a real sense of pride in my thin skin, and in a weird way, I still do, because it's my thin skin that a….

There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting signed….

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame..

If your writing is good, if it resonates, if it connects the dots for anybody out there, the lovers will come, the haters will come, support will com….

While we're over here blocked up in our departments and locked up in our own judgments and dealing with our own crazy problems, they're over there de….

I don't try to make anybody outside happy..

I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated..

Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, co….

If you come across an American artist right now who has no political opinions or is afraid of talking politics, be very concerned..

If I simply do what I've always done, it's never failed me..

If you love people enough, they will give you everything..

Meditation, especially for people who dont know very much about it and think its this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even….

You're not going to be perfect, you're not going to stop berating yourself, you're not going to stop the comparisons, you're not going to stop the ju….

There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows..

Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time..

I feel like I've gotten to the point in my career and in my life where I can allow myself to write whatever comes into my head and not judge it too h….

I remember being a teenager and being really impressed by "let's sit around and b*tch" people, and I have so little time for those people nowadays..

I had a real come-to-Jesus a couple of years ago when I started to see the direct line between feminism and everything else - feminism and climate ch….

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging ….