People create from different places. Some love to create from a tortured place, some from a JOYFUL place. And when I feel like I'm a 5-year-old kid in my BACKYARD playing PRETEND, that's when I'm HAPPIEST.

There are two DIFFERENT things: there's grilling, and there's barbecue. Grilling is when PEOPLE SAY, 'We're going to turn up the HEAT, make it really hot and sear a steak, sear a burger, cook a chicken.' Barbecue is going LOW and slow.

People TEND to associate fairies with PRINCESSES, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and DANCE by the light of the moon.

I navigate different cultures daily, and I understand how PEOPLE can make FALSE ASSUMPTIONS because of their lack of interaction with the cultures I FIND myself in. But if they don't frequent these spaces much, how can they rush to JUDGMENT?

Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a YEAST cell, say, and a CHICKEN erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new HYBRID cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking SELF-RESPECT, do not SEEM to have any sense of self.

You don't have to compose a masterpiece every TIME, but I THINK the challenge of art is always searching for SOMETHING different, searching for a new sensitivity, a new PERSPECTIVE, a new vision.

We think too SMALL, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He THINKS the SKY is only as BIG as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely DIFFERENT view.

Diversity is not a skin thing, necessarily. Diversity is you have PEOPLE AROUND the table who have DIFFERENT backgrounds and different experiences and THINK differently.

Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you're up-and-coming or you've been in it for AWHILE, you have to EXPLORE DIFFERENT revenues and different ways of EXPRESSING yourself.