It’s one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.

If I believed in Hell, I’d definitely be going there.

Sometimes I would write something that was so private, people would say, ‘Make it more universal.’ I never liked that idea. I always thought the more personal a song was, the more people would want to hear it.

I’ve always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.

A lot of comic conventions go way beyond comic books and include other parts of pop culture, like celebrities and science fiction and movies and books. So I go to them either as a celebrity, or as a fan, because I’m a big sci-fi geek.

The Go-Go’s were like my first babies.

I used to think when I was in the Go-Go’s that we were as wild as any of the boy bands.

What I’ve found – and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it – is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It’s scary to be truthful, and it’s scary to reveal yourself, and I’m very attracted to doing things that scare me.

It’s just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs.

It’s too heart-wrenching doing the solo thing. I throw myself into it and get so excited, and then 2000 people buy it and you’re, like, ‘Oh. I guess it’s not that good after all.’