Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you're sane.

You can dance in a hurricane, but only if you're standing in the eye.

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.

Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you're sane.

Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I've played so many shows in Colorado that I think I'm the Colorado house band.

I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models.

But I'm warning you, we're growing up.