What I strive to do with songwriting is be really honest, authentic and try to be open and share that with people. I choose that over trying to be clever, poetic, or lyrical.

Pain is a part of life. It's certainly part of my creative process.

I want to live the way I choose. It's all about happiness. I'm a happy person. But to find true happiness, peace within yourself and the world, that is something achieved in the moment. No matter the circumstance.

Paul Simon is my absolute hero. He's one of a kind. He wrote his own ticket in life by being himself.

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

Blessed is this life, I'm gonna celebrate being alive.