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The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability.

The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

Once I wrote 'Atmosphere,' I thought, 'This is my story; it's me and my life and what I've gone through to get to where I am.' I'm not the best singer, but still. All of my albums are personal, but putting myself out there and singing is one more thing that makes me vulnerable - one more thing that people can fire shots at.

Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there.

For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do.

I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.