I think I have to work to write a happy song. I write them carefully; they're simple and they're about when it's fun to walk down the street. You kno….

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live..

You never know when you're making a memory..

I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid's house, then of all a sudden I would just stick out my thumb and hitchhike a….

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people..

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person..

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward..

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people..

I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am..

I didn't have any great job prospects..

It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart..

Love will wash you clean in the nights disgrace..

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff..

I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over..

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies..

You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game..

I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be fright….

He loved her, free parts and labor. But she broke down and died..

I'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels..

Singing other people's material was perceived, I think, as a weakness of my persona. The effect, though, was to make me dig my heels in and try even ….

When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing..