My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.

I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole 'Super Bowl' generalization of our world - You're on this side, I'm on that side; you're a Republican, I'm a Democrat; you're country music, I'm rock music.

You can't change people, but most importantly, unless you're their momma, you don't even know what's best for them.

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

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.

I'm not so arrogant to consider mine the only legitimate art form. I can't in one breath make a fuss about someone compartmentalizing music into genre and then in the next accuse advertising and short film of not being art.

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