It’s too easy to do your own site to not have one these days. I guess everyone has one.

You’re creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it’s their experience, not yours. I’ll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about ‘my’ broken heart.

I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.

They don’t have the edge that I need. I’m not interested in reliving 1988.

Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

I guess I watch more MTV than you do. I’m a junkie for it.

I didn’t really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest.

I’d always loved poetry and I’d always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn’t thought of putting the two together until around that time.

There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there’s this film-noir character of a woman who’s sort of losing it in a room.

Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music...

Kids don’t go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet.

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes...

I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.

They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.