You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

Now I know I'll never be numb again. A mother is condemned to feel everything forever. And I'm finally afraid, condemned to fear everything forever. But that makes sense: feel someone else's pain, feel someone else's everything.And he's my baby, so everything's okay.

No drug is a cure, though. Drugs are just big pieces of tape they stick over warning lights.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.

I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s.

I don't like what the radio plays for the most part.

If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they wouldn't have the Grammys.

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.