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" We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us. "

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" I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you. "

" My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it. "

" Music was never just a hobby for me. I'd pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing at the time. I would put my ideas in songs the way some people might put them in diaries or journals. "

" We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived. "

" I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur. "

" I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them. "

" So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics. "

" That's one of the things I like about San Francisco. It's not like anywhere else in the world. "

" I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to run or they'd shoot me. "

" I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ. "

" I never travelled when I was younger. "

" I decided to do whatever I could to make sure the business side of music didn't intrude on the creative part. "

" I think religion played a huge part in Bush's re-election. "

" What does the future look like if the heads of society ask our young people to risk their lives for questionable causes? I think it looks rather bleak. "

" The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together. "

" I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia. "

" I don't try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am. "

" That's what everyone should do with their lives: stand up for what they believe in or try to do some good in the world. I don't think artists have a greater responsibility than anyone else. "

" I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about. "

" Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin. "

" I don't know - I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go. "

" I can't think of anything worse, really, than to try to live up to someone else's expectations of what you should be. You don't make art by consensus. "

" At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered. "

" People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need. "

" It's fun playing small venues. "

" As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library. "

" Love's a recurring theme through my work. "

" My first record was almost not my first record. "

" As I started to consider a career in music, I hoped for success, truthfully. I didn't imagine anything that would amass the level of the first record, but I hoped that I would be able to sustain a career. "

" As you might imagine, I'm approached by lots of organizations and lots of people who want me to support their various charitable efforts in some way. And I look at those requests, and I basically try to do what I can. "