I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.

I nurture my close relationships like priceless lamps. That's part of why the job itself is inherently difficult and kind of a paradox, because you're out there touring and traveling and going a million miles a minute, but the things that are keeping you steady and stable can be really hard to nurture when you're going fast, and your relationships, which are the number one thing that help me through.

If your writing is good, if it resonates, if it connects the dots for anybody out there, the lovers will come, the haters will come, support will come — sometimes in the form of money, sometimes in the form of something less expected — and it balances.

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down.

One thing about being a performer is you're not just doing an intellectual job behind a desk; you're out there performing and being looked at, being assessed for really superficial stuff.