I'm glad I get singled out for my slide guitar-playing, which isn't that difficult to do. I didn't take guitar lessons, but I just love the way it sounds, almost like the human voice.

I'll close my eyes, so I won't see, all of the love that you don't feel for me.

It's a lot harder to be clear-headed, but the good stuff is when you start realizing who's really you.

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

With slide guitar, you're just hanging this piece of glass on your hand. It's a really beautiful instrument in that it's so responsive, you're just slipping your hand back and forth.

I think that we have a unique opportunity as performers and artists to be kind of the town criers and also to get more people to listen, so that's a blessing and a responsibility that I take very seriously.

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.