I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models.

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.

But I'm warning you, we're growing up.

You can dance in a hurricane, but only if you're standing in the eye.

All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been and how I got to where I am.

The purpose of it all is love.

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

In life, I'm most inspired by entertaining people and driven by the desire to do it by such a powerful force that I think it influences everything I do.

Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.

Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I've played so many shows in Colorado that I think I'm the Colorado house band.

The mole can't live in your dollhouse.

Bravery means doing something scary.

I have the best job in the world. I wake up every morning energized at the thought of running Rio de Janeiro, the most exciting city on the planet.

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

The album feels like a new era for me -- emotionally, lyrically, sonically. It feels fresh, it feels new. It's still me. It's still stuff that fans know and love but it's a new chapter 100 percent.

Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.

There’s something about pleasure I find annoying.

I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.

As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.

The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone

Crystals amplify the consciousness.