Careers are like roller coasters. You go up, you go down, and you spin yourself around.

Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

In an amusement park, you can go on a roller coaster that carries you up and down, or you can go on another kind of ride that whirls you around in a circle. Similarly, there are different sorts of entertaining experiences in the theater.

It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.

There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.