When you love a song so much you have to sing, you know how you feel - it releases something in you that resonates as true, whether it's James Brown or Joni Mitchell.

I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.

I hope I'm an integrous person who cleans up their messes when I've been a jerk.

Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of real music.

I don't need any drug to show me Heaven And I sure know how to spend plenty of time cleaning Hell But I'm missin' that feeling of falling.

When they were putting oil rigs up and down the California coast, the whole issue of safe energy and the addiction to fossil fuels really came into focus.

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.