Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

It's not my concern to make a commercial pop record. I want to make a record of music that I would listen to, that is lyrically rich and has songs that people can relate to - more along the Jakob Dylan route: people who create for the art of it and not necessarily the monetary rewards of it.

I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.

People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.