Things aren't always as they appear. I've been believing things to be a certain way because I want them to be that way. I build up illusions in my head.

I can write songs, but I'm not gonna really feel good about the song unless it feels like me, and I'm not gonna release a song or put it on an album or play it in concert unless it really feels like me.

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.

People really respond to the songs when I play them in concert. Every song comes from a different place emotionally or from a different headspace.

I think the two biggest issues are world hunger and health, and all the things that stem from bad food.

I'm an avid juicer and a healthy eater.

As an artist I write about the world I want to live in. And as a musician and someone who is in the public eye, I think you have this responsibility to influence people. So I try influence people to live from their heart and make conscious decisions , and I try just inspire people to make positive change. That's purely the reason I do it. I want to see the world get better, you know?