We play some smaller songs larger than they are the record, and vice versa. It took me a while to get used to playing live.

There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days

We all assume the worst the best we can.

I'm one of those people who sort of feeds on music.

I just try to use my own life to build a human song: something that people can relate to in some way. It's not like the psychiatrist's couch or anything.

I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining.

It's fun to be able to revisit a song and do something that doesn't really illustrate the song but works tangentially or runs parallel to the song in some way.

I'm kind of interested in visual communication. For me it's more about suggesting than arguing a point.

I had all these songs lying around. They had all these woman characters, and I thought the idea of the Woman King would be a good way to tie them all together.

It sort of depends on the song. Some of them are pretty easy to write, and others take a while. I do a lot of writing in the morning.

There are good places to play and bad places.

If you can read, write and think, you have liberated yourself from any darkness into the wonderful light.

So beautiful but so bountiful.So delicate but so fresh.So magical but so simple.So much to say but yet so silent.So loving and so pleasant.Oh, flowers of charming love, You are life’s joy and present.

What do you think Amy Poehler is doing right now?

I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.

Cycling also offers a sense of independence, of being able to get up and go wherever and whenever you want. That's invaluable.

Wrestling is part of what I do, but far from the only thing.

I do think better of womankind than to suppose they care whether Mister John Keats five feet high likes them or not.

Which country is suffering from too much freedom of speech? Name it, is there one?

Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy.

That intermediate manifestation of the divine process which we call the DNA code has spent the last 2 billion years making this planet a Garden of Eden.