I think that things like Twitter and the blogosphere are so instantaneously critical that I think it's actually created a bit of a culture of artistic fear to branch out too much because you don't want to be slammed.

All of the things an arts education gives a young person enhance leadership skills and help raise grades.

You live in a bubble, generally, when you're touring and recording - you're in confined - in alone space, wherever you are, in the dressing room or in the studio - so sometimes it's hard to grasp that bigger picture of things that are going on.

I don't have a circus around me, and that's a choice. I like to be on Planet Earth as much as possible.

I credit my success to my mother. Her prayers and support are everything to me. I know all she does for me, and I know nothing I do can ever pay back the amount of support she has given me.

I kind of have this sense of mission now when we talk about success: I'd really like Whole Foods to contribute to the healing of America, and the success of that may be measured in decades rather than in months, but I think we're on the way to doing it.

I hope people remember me as a good and decent man. And if they do, then that's success.

Success is entirely accessible, even if you happen to be a huge screw-up 95 percent of the time.