I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality

Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.

There's no way to learn how to write a hit song. There's no formula for it. You just have to have it inside of you.

I love driving; driving along the California coastline is the best drive in the world.

Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.

My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuff like pigs, cows, and chickens. We really don't have an honest-to-goodness farm, more of a hobby farm.

I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.