To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.

I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if its not something that I have a longing to celebrate or to be reminded of, if it doesn't affect me, then how can I possibly think it is going to affect somebody else. My touchstone is write something that matters.

I need music like I need water.

I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten.

Life is a process, and you just take it a day at a time, and you can't live in tomorrow, and you can't reach back and be in yesterday. No matter how much you want to, you just have what's right there in front of you.

I'm not anxious to be anywhere other than where I am right now.

I have spent probably years of time waiting in studio lounges - waiting on a mix, waiting on my time to sing, waiting on, waiting on, waiting on. That's just the nature of life.