I mean, playing music at home and writing and hanging out with my guitar is kind of medicinal for me, but when I bring the songs to people on stage, it's very joyous.

The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy.

Some people's minds we're not going to change. But if we can't, we need to bring more positive voices into the discussion.

One thing that Barack Obama promised, one thing that we all know we must do is evolve our industry and our technology to being green and sustainable. We need to move away from fossil fuels and nuclear power, both of which I think spell doom for human society.

I had a little bit of resistance to the idea of taking energy away from my work, and the baby comes along and, lo and behold, that's exactly what happens.

And if there's anything I do it's change and grow. I'm just a living being. Every year of my life I seem to learn that everything I know is wrong.

Mostly, I stay out of social media conversations. But sometimes, they hunt me down and shoot at me anyway!