Don't forget that love is all you came here for, not anything less. Need I say more?

The ocean inspires me because there's the energy of the water moving.

Songs don't really feel like me unless I somehow shed a little secret or open myself somehow or be vulnerable. When I'm singing these songs, it feels like me, and that comes with the vulnerabilities and the strengths and the moments of triumph or whatever.

I guess it's just my job to somehow balance knowing that every song is going to come differently and be different, but also know that, on the other hand, I am a songwriter and I am a craftsman, and I do have a craft and a technique and a method. So I need to balance the technique and the method.

When you get to say something in a song you're not directing it necessarily at one person. When it's in a song it's easier to get it out. I don't really worry so much about it when I'm writing a song.

The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.

Bringing up issues that are hard to deal with is a challenge for me, and I think that's what draws me to song writing.