Certain emotions just take you to the notes - being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.

I disoriented myself from everything about being a human being and just played and played and played and sang and sang and sang.

I don't want my reputation to take me over, I just want to be judged on my songs. I want people to come and see me because they want to, not because fashion dictates it.

People have a certain perfection about them, no matter who they are. Like when Janis Joplin sang. Gorgeous!

A song just doesn't have verse-chorus-verse. It could just be one line. There are Chinese love songs that you have to learn one melody for a three-minute thing, and nothing ever repeats. I like that.

There are times when what you do will be mysterious to everyone... times when you have to change directions before people are ready. Just because someone does something that critics don't like or understand doesn't mean you're failing as a musician. It probably means you're growing.